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Institute for Advanced Study
Report for the Academic Year 2012–2013
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t is fundamental in our purpose, and our express . desire, that in the appointments to the staff and
faculty as well as in the admission of workers and students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex. We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Extract from the letter addressed by the Institute’s Founders, Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld, to the first Board of Trustees, dated June 4, 1930 Newark, New Jersey
Cover: Lunchtime at the Institute in Simons Hall Photo: Dan Komoda
The Institute for Advanced Study exists to encourage and support curiosity-driven research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world.
THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES, established in 1949 with
the merging of the School of Economics and Politics and the School of Humanistic Studies, is concerned principally with the history of Western European, Near Eastern, and East Asian civilizations. The School actively promotes interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilization of ideas.
THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS , established in 1933, was the first
School at the Institute for Advanced Study. Several central themes in mathematics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries owe their major impetus to discoveries that have taken place in the School, which today is an international center for research on mathematics and computer science. The School sponsors, jointly with Princeton University, the Program for Women and Mathematics.
THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, established in 1966, supports
research in broad areas of theoretical physics, astronomy, and systems biology. Areas of current interest include elementary particle physics, string theory, quantum theory, and quantum gravity; investigating the origin and composition of the universe; and conducting research at the interface of molecular biology and the physical sciences. The School sponsors Prospects in Theoretical Physics, a program for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.
THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE , founded in 1973, takes as its
mission the analysis of societies and social change and is devoted to a multidisciplinary, comparative, and international approach to social research and the examination of historical and contemporary problems.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS include the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies,
which explores different ways of viewing the world; the Artist-in-Residence Program; Director’s Visitors; the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, which aims to increase awareness of the roles of professionals in all mathematicsbased occupations; and the Science Initiative Group, dedicated to building science capacity in the developing world.
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IAS Contents
Institute for Advanced Study
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Background and Purpose
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Report of the Chairman
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Report of the Director
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Report of the School of Historical Studies
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Report of the School of Mathematics
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Report of the School of Natural Sciences
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Report of the School of Social Science
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Report of the Institute Libraries
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The IAS Community
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Reports of the Special Programs
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Acknowledgments
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Founders, Trustees, and Officers of the Board and of the Corporation Administration
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Present and Past Directors and Faculty
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Independent Auditors’ Report
TA B L E O F C O NT E NT S
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CLIFF COMPTON
The campus of the Institute for Advanced Study provides a tranquil environment for scholars engaged in theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.
Background and Purpose
he Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930 with a major gift from New Jersey businessman and philanthropist Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, who wished to use their fortunes to make a significant and lasting contribution to society. They sought the advice of educator Abraham Flexner, who developed the concept of the Institute as a community of scholars whose primary purpose would be the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration. The Institute for Advanced Study has remained committed to its founding principles, and its record of definitive scholarship and scientific achievement is unsurpassed.
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The Institute fills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. As “the university to universities,” in the words of Trustee Vartan Gregorian, the Institute serves all colleges and universities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their best work, thereby adding substantially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions where they base their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, an opportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for lifelong research The Institute’s foremost interests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides more objective is the advancement mature scholars with the opportunity to take new directions in their research or of knowledge and the to complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations of working deepening of understanding life at a university. At a time when pure research and scholarly activities are across a broad range of undervalued, the opportunities that the Institute provides have never been more necessary. The Institute’s foremost objective is the advancement of knowledge and the humanities, sciences, the deepening of understanding across a broad range of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. and social sciences. One of the Institute’s unique strengths is its permanent Faculty of no more than twenty-eight eminent scholars, whose broad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in the guidance and direction they provide to the Institute’s visiting scholars. The Faculty defines the major themes and questions that become the focus of each School’s seminars and other activities, and selects and works closely with visiting Members. Organized in four Schools (Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Members interact with one another without any departmental or disciplinary barriers. B AC K G R O U N D A N D P U R P O S E
Each year the Institute awards fellowships to some 190 visiting Members from about one hundred universities and research institutions throughout the world. The Institute’s more than six thousand former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad. Some thirty-three Nobel Laureates and thirty-eight out of fifty-two Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute. The Institute does not receive income from tuition or fees; resources for operations come from endowment income, grants from private foundations and government agencies, and gifts from corporations and individuals.
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Report of the Chairman
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he Board of Trustees is honored and delighted that Robbert Dijkgraaf has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as its ninth Director and first Leon Levy Professor. Last summer, we were truly fortunate to welcome Robbert, his wife Pia, and their family to the Institute.
Robbert is a dynamic, creative, and forward-thinking leader who understands intimately the mission of the Institute and has an innate talent for elucidating the value of theoretical research. A mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education, he is admired as a scientist, administrator, communicator, and advocate. He is a worthy successor to Peter Goddard, who provided such astute leadership as Director of the Institute for nearly a decade and who is now a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. We look forward to the many ways that Robbert will continue the brilliant tradition of directorships since the founding of the Institute in 1930. The ability of the Institute to provide scholars with the freedom to pursue curiosity-driven research in the sciences and humanities depends crucially on our financial independence. We are immensely grateful for the generous gifts from Faculty, Trustees, Friends, Members and Visitors, foundations, and other supporters of the Institute’s work. As of June 30, 2013, more than $64 million had been raised toward the $100 million unrestricted challenge grant from the Simons Foundation and the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, announced in 2011. The grant, which must be matched by funds from donors by 2015, serves as the basis for a $200 million campaign to support academic freedom at the Institute. All irrevocable gifts and grants of endowment or operating support are counted toward the campaign goal and the Simons and Simonyi challenge.
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We are particularly thankful to Robert and Luisa Fernholz who have generously endowed a Professorship in the Institute’s School of Mathematics. The first Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor is Richard Taylor, one of the world’s leading number theorists who has been a Professor at the Institute since 2012. A Trustee of the Institute since 2010, Robert Fernholz is Founder and Chairman of the Investment Committee of INTECH Investment Management, and Luisa Fernholz is Professor Emerita of Statistics at Temple University. Luisa currently serves as Director of the Minerva Research Foundation, which the couple founded in 1993.
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During the last academic year, the Board was very pleased to welcome Jeffrey A. Harvey, Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, to the Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2013. Harvey was nominated by the Institute’s School of Natural Sciences and succeeds Curtis Callan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University, whose five-year term for the School broadened our viewpoint and deepened our purpose. In May, we also celebrated Vartan Gregorian, who was elected Trustee Emeritus after twenty-six years of extraordinary service. Vartan first joined the Board in 1987, the same year that Marvin L. Goldberger became the Institute’s sixth Director. During his tenure, Vartan was instrumental in identifying and securing each subsequent Director: Phillip Griffiths, Peter Goddard, and Robbert Dijkgraaf. During the Institute’s most recent search, which led to Robbert’s appointment, Vartan provided inestimable leadership as Chairman of the Search Committee. The Board is indebted to Vartan, whose deep understanding of the Institute, unfaltering dedication to excellence, and deep concern for humanity has enriched the Institute immeasurably. We were deeply saddened by Ike Kohn’s death in March. Ike was a Trustee from 1997 to 2006 after which he served as Trustee Emeritus. While Ike served on the Board for more than a decade, his connections with the Institute stretched back more than half a century to 1948 when his father, Hans Kohn, was a Member in the School of Historical Studies. Ike and his wife Vera have been longtime Friends of the Institute, since 1981, and are among our most generous individual benefactors. Abraham Flexner, our founding Director, believed that curiosity is the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking, going back to Galileo, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton. The Institute exists to support unrestricted curiosity into the unknown, believing that the cultivation of curiosity benefits not only the advancement of knowledge but also human welfare. It is our privilege and obligation to provide scientists and scholars with this increasingly rare opportunity. Charles Simonyi Chairman 6
Report of the Director aking up my appointment as the ninth Director of the Institute last summer felt profoundly humbling but also a bit like coming home. The warmness of the welcome that my family and I have felt has surpassed our highest expectations.
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My first visit to the Institute was as a graduate student in 1988. I still remember driving at night along Olden Lane and seeing Fuld Hall fully lit from a distance. I felt like I was entering a new world. When I came to the Institute as a Member (1991–92) and a Visitor (2002) in the School of Natural Sciences, I learned that the Institute is indeed a magical place. Looking back, the Institute years clearly set the course for my career, both in terms of research topics and contacts. This formative period also made me, as a physicist, appreciate the power and attractiveness of mathematics. At the Institute, “it” can happen, although nobody will or can tell you in advance what “it” is. Unfortunately, places that allow such unrestricted academic freedom are becoming more rare, with so much emphasis today on short-term returns. Our Trustees must be complimented that they have kept this clear vision intact over the years. As envisioned by our founders in 1930, the Institute brings together scholars of the highest level and serves as an example across the world for the importance of supporting curiosity-driven research. J. Robert Oppenheimer, our third Director, liked to use the word “inspiriting,” which aptly describes the Institute’s distinct environment of curiosity, freedom, and comradeship.
In May, King Harald V of Norway presented the Abel Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to Pierre Deligne, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, for his “seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.” In his acceptance speech, Pierre articulated the essential role of freedom and curiosity in research—as the source of most of the important applications of sciences and as a powerful incentive to do the best work possible. The Institute is exceptionally grateful to Pierre, who donated a portion of his monetary prize to support research in the Institute’s School of Mathematics.
The Institute community has benefited greatly from the musical presence and inquisitive nature of Derek Bermel, who served as the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence from 2009–13. In 2013–14, Sebastian Currier will serve as Artist-in-Residence, continuing a tradition that dates to the program’s origins in 1994. I am especially thankful to Peter Goddard, my predecessor, who worked as hard to honor the history and ideals of the Institute as he did to aid the aims of his successors. Our founders and subsequent benefactors—Trustees, Faculty, Members and Visitors, Friends, foundations, and other supporters—must also be congratulated for enabling the precious freedom that Faculty and Members at the Institute experience. Fundamental research at the Institute furthers our grasp of a world of diverse facts, structures, ideas, and cultures. We share the conviction of our founders that such limitless deep thinking will change this world, but where and how is always a surprise.
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In the School of Social Science, we were immensely pleased to announce the appointment of Dani Rodrik, a political economist whose work combines rigorous research with an innovative examination of ideas across the field of economics, as the Albert O. Hirschman Professor, with effect from July 1, 2013. Dani comes to the Institute from Harvard University, where he was Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In December, we were deeply saddened by the death of Albert Hirschman, a founder of the Institute’s School of Social Science and Professor Emeritus, whose highly influential work in economics and politics has had profound impact on economic thought and practice in the United States and beyond. An impassioned observer who sought to understand the world as well as change it, Albert will be sorely missed.
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A great moment during my first year as Director took place in July when four of our Faculty in the School of Natural Sciences—Nima Arkani-Hamed, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, and Edward Witten—received the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize of the Milner Foundation for their significant and path-breaking contributions to fundamental physics. The prizes are well-deserved recognition of the power of visionary ideas by daring individuals, and of the current strength and excellent future prospects of research in theoretical physics at the IAS.
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Professor Patrick Geary (left) with Ittai Weinryb, Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Jessica Golberg (right), Member in the School of Social Science and Member (2009–10) in the School of Historical Studies, outside of Fuld Hall
School of Historical Studies Faculty
Yve-Alain Bois Angelos Chaniotis Patricia Crone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies Patrick J. Geary Jonathan Israel
Professors Emeriti
Glen W. Bowersock Caroline Walker Bynum Giles Constable Christian Habicht Irving Lavin Peter Paret Heinrich von Staden Morton White
he School of Historical Studies is concerned principally with the history of Western European, Near Eastern, and East Asian civilizations. Both inside and outside these broad areas of study, Faculty and Members have pursued a wide range of topics. The emphasis has been traditionally on Greek and Roman civilization; medieval, early modern, and modern European history; the history of art; and the history of science, but over time the School’s interests have been expanded to include Islamic culture, the history of China and Japan, modern international relations, and more recently, music studies. Over two thousand scholars have come to the School since its founding, and their work in these and other areas of research regularly has been enriched by the fruitful interaction of disciplines in a small and collegial community.
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The School’s broad interpretation of the meaning of “Historical Studies” continued to be reflected in the research projects pursued by the fifty-one Members and three Visitors who joined the School for the academic year 2012–13. Societies as diverse as the Chosun Kingdom of Korea, El Salvador in the late twentieth century, ancient Greece, and modern Mongolia were the focus of projects that examined a broad spectrum of the human experience, from religion, philosophy, art, and music, to terrorism, politics, and the scientific revolution. The periods studied ranged from as far back as the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the late twentieth century. The scholars themselves came from universities throughout the United States and Europe, and from as far away as Mongolia and Hong Kong. Members received support both from the Institute’s own funds and from a variety of external sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
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Beyond the individual research projects pursued, many events drew groups of scholars together for lectures and discussions that facilitated the exchange of ideas across fields and regions. These included a regular series of presentations by individual Members to the School as a whole at the Monday Lunchtime Colloquia, as well as
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invited lectures, seminars, and a number of smaller groups that met on a regular basis to present and discuss topics of mutual interest. Michael van Walt van Praag, who spent the second of his three years as Visiting Professor in the School, organized a seminar series on modern international relations and history and hosted a threeday conference titled “The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of its Relations with Other Polities in Asia,” which focused on East- and Inner-Asian relations.
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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Visiting Professor Michael van Walt van Praag gave a public lecture on how to address the multiple realities in intrastate conflicts (video available at http://video.ias.edu/van-Walt-lecture-3-13).
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From left: Member Nathanael Andrade, Professor Angelos Chaniotis, film directors Oliver Stone and Gary Leva, and Member Yannis Hamilakis discuss historiography in the context of cinema.
In 2012–13, Professor Yve-Alain Bois pursued his work on the catalogue raisonné of the paintings and sculpture of the American artist Ellsworth Kelly, on which he also published an essay in a special issue of the journal Cahiers d’Art devoted to his work. He also published essays on Picasso, on Mondrian, and on De Stijl in the catalogue of the exhibition “Inventing Abstraction” at the Museum of Modern Art, and he coedited the special issue of the journal October devoted to abstraction (to which he contributed two essays). He also wrote an essay on the painter Cheyney Thompson in the catalogue of his exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Arts Center, and, in French, an introduction to a collection of interviews of Hubert Damisch. He gave lectures in October, on Matisse at the Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia); in November, on Picasso at a symposium about the artist organized by the University of São Paulo; and in April, on color in modern art in a symposium on painting at Harvard University. He also participated in symposia on abstract art at Princeton University (April), on “Art in Public Spaces” at the Barnes Foundation (May), and on the “Afterlives of Soviet Constructivism” at Princeton University. In June, he chaired six evenings (talks and round tables) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris devoted to the theme “The Contemporary Return of the Sixties,” and he took part in a workshop on “Post-contextualism” organized by Professors Lorraine Daston and Brooke Holmes at the Max-Planck-Institut für
At the Institute, Professor Angelos Chaniotis organized the Ancient Studies Seminar, in which Members presented their work (October– December 2012 and January–April 2013); a panel discussion with the director Oliver Stone, “(Ancient) History on Screen” ( January 2013); and the workshop “Epigraphic Friday” (February 2013). He also lectured in Amsterdam, Athens, Bochum, Cincinnati, Geneva, Jerusalem, London, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, and Venice. In connection with his project The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm, which is funded by the European Research Council, he co-organized the conference “Emotion and Psychiatry: Neuroscience, History, and Culture” at the Royal Society of Medicine in London (May 2012) and the workshop “The Study of Emotions in the Greek World” in Oxford (May 2012).
As a member of the Italian Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca, he contributed to the development of regulations for the evaluation of research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Patricia Crone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, spent much of the academic year 2012–13 writing an article on the old question of how far Jewish Christianity is reflected in the Qur’an (arguing in favor of the view that it is reflected, with new evidence from both the Qur’an itself and external sources). She hopes to complement this article with another on the relationship between Jews, including “believing Jews” (i.e., Jewish Christians), and Arabs on the ground in the locality reflected in the Qur’an. She also wrote a short notice on Empedocles’ oath and Zoroastrianism, for which she needs to find an academic home, and another on Enoch and Idris in the Qur’an, which needs some finishing touches in light of some articles she had not read at the time. Four of her articles (or five, given that one was published in two parts) appeared in print.
Crone presided over the usual Islamicist Seminar, which met whenever a
Professor Patricia Crone (front center) organized an Islamicist Seminar that included talks about the magic bowls of pre-Islamic Iraq and a Zoroastrian school of enlightened thought that flourished in seventeenth-century India.
Professor Bois pursued his work on the catalogue raisonné of the paintings and sculpture of the American artist Ellsworth Kelly, on which he also published an essay in a special issue of the journal Cahiers d’Art devoted to his work.
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Chaniotis coedited Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum LVIII (Leiden, 2012), edited the volume Unveiling Emotion: Sources and Methods for the Study of Emotions in the Greek World (Stuttgart, 2012), and completed the editorial work for the collective volume Emotions in Greece and Rome: Texts, Images, Material Culture (forthcoming). He also worked on his book “The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian.” In August 2012, he participated in the excavation at Aphrodisias, studying inscriptions for his books “Epigraphic Research at Aphrodisias, 1995– 2012” and “From the City of Aphrodite to the City of the Cross: Constructions and Transformations of Identity in Aphrodisias.”
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Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. At the Institute for Advanced Study, he organized a series of art history seminars either at lunch and reserved to Members or in the evening and open to scholars from neighboring institutions. He also organized the fifth series of public lectures cosponsored with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University.
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member of the Islamicist group felt moved to give a talk about his or her subject. Actually “Islamicist” is not the right word, as one of the talks was about the magic bowls of pre-Islamic Iraq and another about a Zoroastrian school of enlightened thought that flourished in seventeenth-century India. In addition, the group met for Arabic text reading, which went well until they started reading Ibn Arabi: Adam Sabra was soon the only participant who understood what was going on.
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Professor Nicola Di Cosmo (center right) co-organized the conference “Worlds in Motion,” which explored the connections, comparable processes, movements of peoples, and cultural exchange between Rome and China in the period roughly from 300 to 600 C.E.
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Together with Member Helmut Heit, Professor Israel organized the international colloquium “Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered,” held at the Institute, in which several of the world’s leading Nietzsche specialists participated.
On the honors front, the most notable event was the award of an honorary doctorate to Michael Cook and Crone in Leiden, Netherlands, which was treated as a much more momentous matter than Crone’s receipt of an honorary doctorate in Copenhagen in 2009. In addition, Crone’s heart was warmed by her receipt of an honorary membership of Gonville and Caius College, her old college in Cambridge, of which she greatly enjoyed being a member and of which she still treasures the fondest memories. In 2012–13, Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, was involved in several collaborative research initiatives. First, he worked on a project funded by the National Science Foundation and begun in January 2013 titled “Pluvials, Droughts, Energetics, and the Mongol Empire.” Born as a joint effort with scientists from West Virginia, Columbia University, and Mongolia, the project aims to understand the relationship between weather patterns in twelfth- to thirteenth-century Mongolia and the phenomenal changes that occurred in that period, culminating in the empire created by Chinggis Khan. The project’s central question is the relationship between natural resources and political transformations in a premodern nomadic society. Past historians have suspected that a worsening of environmental and climate conditions may have “pushed” the Mongols out, but recent discoveries based on tree-ring analysis argue instead for an abundance of resources. A second collaborative project resulted in the conference “Worlds in Motion,” organized jointly with Professor Michael Maas of Rice University and held at the Institute May 29–June 1, 2013. The conference brought together twentyfour speakers and eight discussants from various intellectual worlds: late antique history, early medieval Europe, Sasanian Iran, Central Asian and Chinese history, and archaeology. Central to the conference was the exploration of connections, comparable processes, movements of peoples, and cultural exchange between Rome and China in the period roughly from 300 to 600 C.E. A third area of collaboration concerns working with advanced graduate students. In February 2013, he began a three-year Visiting Professorship at Princeton University’s Department of East Asian Studies. The appointment entails teaching one seminar per year and an advisory relationship with graduate students. He has also been advising students and visiting scholars as a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.
At the Institute, he participated in the roundtable conference organized by Visiting Professor Michael van Walt van Praag (December 2012), where he presented a paper on early Manchu concepts of sovereignty. His yearly East Asian Studies Seminar within the School included sixteen talks. Several studies were completed: on “truth” in traditional Chinese historiography, on the category of “elite” in history and archaeology, and on empire formation among nomads. Among his essays that appeared in print, one may note “Connecting Maritime and Continental History: The Black Sea Region at the Time of the Mongol Empire” in The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography (University of Michigan Press, 2013). Professor Patrick J. Geary continues to direct a long-term, collaborative, and interdisciplinary project that brings together geneticists, historians, and archaeologists from the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to study early medieval population demographics through the analysis of ancient DNA. The project has taken him to Florence, Italy, where the laboratory work is being conducted, as well as to Hungary, Austria, and Moravia to arrange for collection of samples from these areas, and also to Germany to consult with archaeologists and physical anthropologists. To date, his team has collected close to eight hundred samples and is in the process of extracting and sequencing their DNA. He published two books in the 2012–13 academic year: Writing History: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the Middle Ages (Kubon & Sagner, 2012) and Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages (Brandeis University Press, 2013).
During 2012–13, Professor Jonathan Israel completed his book Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre,
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At the Institute for Advanced Study, he organized a series of lunchtime seminars for Members, hosted a lecture by Professor Rosamond McKitterick of the University of Cambridge, and participated in the IAS– Collège de France workshop on borders and in the “Worlds in Motion” conference organized by Professor Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas of Rice University. He also presented his research project on medieval genetics at the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the School of Natural Sciences.
Member Derek Krueger (fourth from left) during a Medieval Seminar organized by Professor Patrick Geary
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He also participated in conferences and lectured at the Norwegian Academy in Rome, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Vienna, the Central European University in Budapest, and the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2013, he chaired the committee that provided a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching, research, and administration of the University of Paris IV, the Sorbonne.
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scheduled to be published by Princeton University Press in the spring of 2014. It attempts a fundamental reinterpretation of this key historical event. He also began work on a short book comparing the American and French revolutions and on the recently commissioned fourth part of his Enlightenment survey, a follow-up to Democratic Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2011) covering the last phase and political defeats of the Enlightenment in the period 1780– 1848. He also published several academic articles. During the year, he chaired the Institute workshop on modern history, which met monthly from October to April to discuss work-in-progress papers precirculated by Members in the School of Historical Studies who work in this field. Each two-hour workshop was followed by informal discussion, drinks, and dinner. Between September and May, Israel also jointly chaired the EighteenthCentury Seminar with colleagues from the History Department of Princeton University, which jointly organized and funded the seminar with the Institute and featured speakers from all over the United States and abroad. Together with Member Helmut Heit, Israel also jointly organized the international colloquium “Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered,” held at the Institute April 5 and 6, in which several of the world’s leading Nietzsche specialists participated.
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Member Adam Sabra (right) led an Early Modern History Workshop, chaired by Professor Jonathan Israel (left), on the bureaucratization of succession.
On February 25, Israel gave the keynote at the City University of New York’s Ph.D. program in a history seminar on the Radical Enlightenment, a debate about the three volumes he has published on this topic thus far. During the 2012–13 academic year, he also delivered public lectures on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution in Providence, Rhode Island; Houston, Texas; and Portland, Maine, and at the universities of Haifa, Tel Aviv, Almeria, Murcia, Madrid, and Oslo and at the Ax:son Johnson Foundation in Sweden. During May 2013, he also held a visiting lectureship at the Brussels Vrije Universiteit, where he gave three public lectures, and he helped organize and gave the keynote at an international conference in Brussels, “The Radical Enlightenment: The Big Picture and Its Details” (May 16–17). Professor Emeritus Glen W. Bowersock published two books in 2012–13. One, Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity (Brandeis University Press, 2012), comprised the annotated texts of three lectures he delivered in Jerusalem in April
In June and October, Bowersock went to Brussels to complete his six-year term of service to the European Research Council as chair of a panel in humanities and social science. This panel awarded substantial grants to senior scholars who work in countries within or associated with the European Union. He also continued to serve on the Advisory Committee for New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, which was founded by IAS Trustee Shelby White.
Professor Emerita Caroline Walker Bynum continued to work on late medieval topics that fall at the intersection of art history and the history of Christianity. She published an article comparing late medieval and nineteenthcentury pieties in the Furrow; an article on sacred objects seen from a comparative perspective in the Irish Theological Quarterly; a short piece on medieval materiality for the Art Bulletin’s “Notes from the Field”; and a long autobiographical essay titled “Why Paradox?” commissioned by the Catholic Historical Review. She also published three reviews and two occasional pieces, one in the American Historical Association’s newsletter Perspectives on the implications of retirement for the historical profession and one on changes in professional opportunities for women in the sixties and early seventies, written for the Chronicle of Higher Education. She lectured at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, at Northwestern University, and at Johns Hopkins University, and she spoke at conferences organized by the American Academy in Berlin and the Bard
Member Maria Hsiuya Loh (left), who studied ghost stories and the pathos of portraiture, with Professor Emeritus Glen Bowersock
Professor von Staden continued to focus his research efforts on two major editions of Greek medical texts as well as a book on the role of animals in ancient science and medicine.
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Bowersock traveled to Naples in March and had the opportunity to see nearly a thousand inscribed marble fragments discovered in work on the city’s subway system. These extraordinary fragments, from a huge public inscription, record the names of victors in the ancient Neapolitan athletic, literary, and musical competitions, known as the Sebasta, in the first century A.D. From Naples, Bowersock went to Cologne to give the opening lecture in a conference, organized by former Institute Member Walter Ameling, on the Christianization of Asia Minor in late antiquity. Over the past academic year, Bowersock published several reviews in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, as well as a paper he had delivered before the Académie des Inscriptions et BellesLettres in Paris on Hector and Julian the Apostate. He devoted one of his New Republic reviews to a history of opera written jointly by former Institute Member Carolyn Abbate and former Director’s Visitor Roger Parker.
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2011 at the Israel Historical Society in memory of Menahem Stern. The second, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2013), examined the sixth-century conflict between the Jewish kingdom of Himyar in southwestern Arabia and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia centered at Axum. In October, Bowersock supplemented some of the material in these two books at a seminar on pagan angels in late antiquity for curators at the Getty Museum in Malibu. He offered this seminar in connection with an invitation from the President and CEO of the Getty Trust to address its Board of Trustees on possible future directions for its various enterprises.
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Member Aihe Wang gave a Lunchtime Colloquium on underground art production in China during the Cultural Revolution.
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Graduate Center in conjunction with the Institute of Fine Arts. In June, she was inducted into the Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bynum also continues her work as a victims’ advocate in two New York City hospitals and is now a certified rape crisis counselor. During the academic year 2012–13, Professor Emeritus Giles Constable published four articles. A book is in course of publication, as are translations of two works into Japanese. His book on Antonio Rinaldeschi, written in collaboration with William Connell, was translated into Romanian. He spoke at conferences on canon law in Toronto, on monastic history in Le MonastierLa Chaise Dieu, in memory of James Powell in Syracuse, and on the Crusades in Pittsburgh, and he attended a number of other meetings. He continued to serve on the editorial boards of several series and scholarly journals, as a reviewer for the American Philosophical Society, and on the selection committee of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Professor Emeritus Christian Habicht continued his work on the history of ancient Cyzicus (Sea of Marmara). His publications were the sixth and final volume of the Histories of Polybius, books 28–40, published by Harvard University Press in the fall of 2012, and a paper on a new strategos of the Achaean League in the second century B.C., “Ainetidas,” in Chiron 42, 2012. Six other papers, accepted by various journals or publishers, still await publication. Professor Emeritus Irving Lavin published the third and final volume in the series of his collected works on the Roman Baroque sculptor, architect, and painter Gianlorenzo Bernini, Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini (Pindar Press, 2013). The volume, soon to be available as an ebook, is titled Bernini at St. Peter’s: The Pilgrimage. Professor Lavin is now working on a projected twovolume publication of his writings on non-Bernini subjects ranging from late antiquity, the Italian Renaissance, and Baroque periods to twentieth-century
art. Currently in proof is a major essay on the form and meaning of the autograph inscription on Michelangelo’s only signed work, the famous Pietà in St. Peter’s: “Divine Grace and the Remedy of the Imperfect: Michelangelo’s Signature on the St. Peter’s Pietà.” A study by Lavin and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin on the history, design, and significance of the Institute’s seal, titled Truth and Beauty at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been published by the Institute. During the academic year, Professor Emeritus Peter Paret wrote a number of essays on the cultural history of efforts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to understand war, which together with previously published essays on related subjects will be published under the title “Clausewitz in His Time.” He also expanded the lecture he gave at the conference on German émigré historians in Washington, D.C., in 2012, “External Events, Inner Drives,” which will appear in the proceedings of the conference, The Second Generation, edited by Andreas Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James Sheehan. In October 2012, Professor Emeritus Heinrich von Staden gave a lecture, “Medicinal ‘Brands’ in the Ancient World,” at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. The talk was presented at an interdisciplinary workshop on branding, mainly focusing on the modern world. In November 2012, he gave a lecture in Paris at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on notions of “evidence” in the Hippocratic writings. The context was the fourteenth international Colloque Hippocratique, organized partly under the auspices of the Academy. In April 2013, he participated in a workshop at the Humboldt University in Berlin on editing ancient fragments, and in May 2013, he participated in the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Atlanta. His publications in 2012–13 included several reviews and “Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen” in Writing Science: Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece, edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak, volume 1 in the series Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures (de Gruyter, 2013). His principal research efforts continued to focus on two major editions of Greek medical texts as well as a book on the role of animals in ancient science and medicine.
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Members participated in an international relations seminar on a new history of Christian democracy.
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Professor Emeritus Morton White has completed a manuscript of a short book titled “Necessary Truth in Descartes, Hobbes, Leibnitz, and Kant.” It is a work that he has been occupied with for the last year or two.
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MEMBERS AND VISITORS f First Term ✦ s Second Term ✦ v Visitor ✦ vp Visiting Professor ✦ a Research Assistant Nathanael Andrade Roman Imperial Near East ✦ University of Oregon The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors George Boys-Stones Ancient Philosophy ✦ Durham University ✦ s Alessandro Maria Bruni Byzantium and Eastern Christianity ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies Christer Bruun Roman History ✦ University of Toronto ✦ f The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member Mayke de Jong Medieval History ✦ Utrecht University ✦ f Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund André Dombrowski Nineteenth-Century European Art ✦ University of Pennsylvania Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Mark William Driscoll East Asian Intellectual and Political History ✦ University of North Carolina Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow; additional funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Marco Fantuzzi Classics, Greek Literature ✦ Università degli Studi di Macerata ✦ f Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Ingrid Maren Furniss Chinese Art and Archaeology, Musicology ✦ Lafayette College ✦ s Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies; additional funding provided by the Hetty Goldman Membership Fund Alex Gottesman Classics ✦ Temple University ✦ s Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Jeffrey Lawrence Gould Latin American History ✦ Indiana University George Kennan Member Yannis Hamilakis Greek Archaeology, Classical Reception ✦ University of Southampton Hetty Goldman Member
James A. Harris Eighteenth-Century British Intellectual History ✦ University of St. Andrews Hans Kohn Member; additional funding provided by the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship Fund Charles Hartman Chinese History ✦ University at Albany, State University of New York ✦ s The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member Helmut Heit Philosophy ✦ Technische Universität Berlin Dilthey Fellowship funded by Volkswagen Stiftung Yitzhak Hen Early Medieval History ✦ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Yonglin Jiang Chinese History ✦ Bryn Mawr College Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies
Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren Central Eurasian Studies ✦ National University of Mongolia George Kennan Member Maria Hsiuya Loh History of Art ✦ University College London Willis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Carolyn Merchant History of Science, Environmental History ✦ University of California, Berkeley ✦ f Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Christian Meyer East Asian Studies ✦ Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg Gerda Henkel Stiftung Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Jan-Werner Mueller Modern Intellectual History ✦ Princeton University ✦ s Hyun Ok Park East Asian Studies ✦ York University ✦ v, f
Mark Jurdjevic Italian Renaissance ✦ York University Felix Gilbert Member; additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Marcus M. Payk Modern European History ✦ HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin Dilthey Fellowship funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
David Kennedy Roman Archaeology ✦ University of Western Australia ✦ v, f
Roberta Pergher European History, Fascism, Empire ✦ Indiana University ✦ s Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Jungwon Kim Korean History ✦ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors Derek Krueger Religion, Late Ancient and Byzantine Studies ✦ The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Anna Krylova Modern Russian History ✦ Duke University ✦ s George Kennan Member Stephen D. Lambert Ancient History, Greek Epigraphy ✦ Cardiff University Funding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund Renée Levine Melammed Medieval History, Jewish Studies ✦ The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies ✦ s Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Anne-Lise Rey Philosophy, History of Science ✦ Université Lille 1 Funding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund Juhyung Rhi Art History ✦ Seoul National University Edwin C. and Elizabeth A.Whitehead Fellow; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Marijana Ricl Ancient History, Greek Epigraphy ✦ University of Belgrade Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member Bruce Rusk Cultural History of Early Modern China ✦ The University of British Columbia ✦ f The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member Ortal-Paz Saar Middle Eastern History, Judaic Studies ✦ Tel Aviv University AMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Adam Sabra Islamic Studies ✦ University of California, Santa Barbara Funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Ron Sela History, Historiography of Islamic Central Asia ✦ Indiana University ✦ f Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Adelheid Voskuhl History of Technology ✦ Harvard University ✦ s Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund Aihe Wang Chinese Studies ✦ The University of Hong Kong ✦ s Willis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ittai Weinryb History of Art ✦ Bard Graduate Center The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors
University; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ Work in Progress ✦ Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center; Member, School of Historical Studies October 8 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Jerome’s Choices and Their Medieval Repercussions ✦ Frans van Liere, Calvin College; Member, School of Historical Studies
Laura Sanguinetti White Medieval History and Literature ✦ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ v, s
October 9 Medieval Seminar ✦ Western Arianism: Politics and Religious Culture in the Early Medieval West ✦ Yitzhak Hen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Member, School of Historical Studies
Weirong Shen History, Philology, Buddist Studies ✦ Renmin University of China The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member
Frédérique Woerther Islamic Philosophy ✦ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Willis F. Doney Member
East Asian Studies Lecture ✦ Dynamics of Communication and Exchange along the “Steppe Highway” in the Late Iron Age ✦ Ursula Brosseder, Universität Bonn
Evrydiki Sifnaiou Economic and Social History ✦ The National Hellenic Research Foundation ✦ f Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Chen-Pang Yeang History of Science and Technology ✦ University of Toronto Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
October 10 Art History Seminar ✦ Impressionism and the Measure of Time ✦ André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Historical Studies
Nigel Scott Smith Comparative Literature and History ✦ Princeton University
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Mitra Sharafi History of Law and Medicine in South Asia ✦ University of Wisconsin–Madison ✦ f The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors
September 20 Medieval Workshop ✦ Narrative Strategies in the “Liber Pontificalis:” The Case of St. Paul, Doctor Mundi, Doctor Gentium, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura in the Early Middle Ages ✦ Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge
Nicola Terrenato Roman Art and Archaeology ✦ University of Michigan ✦ s William D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the Hetty Goldman Membership Fund
September 25 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ China, Food, and the World of Goods in the Long Eighteenth Century ✦ Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University
Stephen V. Tracy Greek History and Epigraphy ✦ The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ✦ v
October 1 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ First Term Introductions ✦ Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies
Francesca Trivellato Early Modern European History ✦ Yale University ✦ f Hans Kohn Member Frans van Liere Medieval History ✦ Calvin College Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member Michael van Walt van Praag Modern International Relations and International Law ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ vp Anthony Vidler Architecture and Urban Studies ✦ The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ✦ s
October 2 Medieval Seminar ✦ Epitaph for an Era: Paschasius Radbertus and His Lament for Wala ✦ Mayke de Jong, Utrecht University; Member, School of Historical Studies Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Introductory Meeting ✦ Jonathan Israel, Professor, School of Historical Studies October 3 Art History Seminar ✦ Introductions ✦ YveAlain Bois, Professor, School of Historical Studies ✦ Work in Progress ✦ Maria Hsiuya Loh, University College London; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ Work in Progress ✦ Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National
October 15 Medieval Seminar ✦ Mesopotamian Magic Bowls ✦ Ortal-Paz Saar, Tel Aviv University; Member, School of Historical Studies Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Conceptualizing Noise in the Early Twentieth Century: From Discordant Sound to Random Fluctuations ✦ Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto; Member, School of Historical Studies October 22 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Ingot We Trust? Imagining Fake Silver in Early Modern China ✦ Bruce Rusk, The University of British Columbia; Member, School of Historical Studies October 23 Medieval Seminar ✦ Adam’s Lament in NinthCentury Byzantium ✦ Derek Krueger, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Member, School of Historical Studies October 24 Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Hume’s Intellectual Biography: An Overview ✦ James A. Harris, University of St Andrews; Member, School of Historical Studies
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Jörg Sonntag Medieval History ✦ Technische Universität Dresden ✦ f George William Cottrell, Jr., Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
October 11 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Religion and Law in a Miao Borderland ✦ Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College; Member, School of Historical Studies
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October 25 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦Market Utopia: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea ✦ Hyun Ok Park, York University; Member, School of Historical Studies October 31 Seminar on International Relations ✦ Making Mongolia Multiethnic: Knowledge, Power, and Identity ✦ Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren, National University of Mongolia; Member, School of Historical Studies November 5 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Controlling Nature: History, Philosophy, and Gender ✦ Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley; Member, School of Historical Studies November 6 Medieval Seminar ✦ Recovering the Liturgy of Jerusalem through Georgian Manuscripts ✦ Alessandro Maria Bruni, Member, School of Historical Studies November 7 Art History Seminar ✦ Veronese’s Story of the Eye ✦ Maria Hsiuya Loh, University College London; Member, School of Historical Studies
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November 8 Seminar on International Relations ✦ The Role of International Law and Lawyers at the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919–20 ✦ Marcus M. Payk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Member, School of Historical Studies
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November 12 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Monks and Nuns as Generators, Mediators and Interpreters of Entertainment Games in Medieval Society ✦ Jörg Sonntag, Technische Universität Dresden; Member, School of Historical Studies November 13 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Display and Arousal of Emotions in Hellenistic Decrees: Why and Why Bother About It? ✦ Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies
Early Byzantium: Material and Liturgical Evidence ✦ Derek Krueger, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Member, School of Historical Studies November 20 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ The “Rhesus” Ascribed to Euripides: Bootless Hotchpotch or Experimental Drama? ✦ Marco Fantuzzi, Università degli Studi di Macerata; Member, School of Historical Studies Medieval Seminar ✦ Monastic Games ✦ Jörg Sonntag, Technische Universität Dresden; Member, School of Historical Studies November 26 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Ignacio Ellacuria and the Salvadoran Revolution ✦ Jeffrey Lawrence Gould, Indiana University; Member, School of Historical Studies November 27 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Georgian Hirmologion as Source for the Study of Greek Music and Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Hymnographic Neumed Manuscripts ✦ Alessandro Maria Bruni, Member, School of Historical Studies Medieval Seminar ✦ Hebraica Veritas in the Twelfth Century ✦ Frans van Liere, Calvin College; Member, School of Historical Studies Seminar on International Relations ✦ Medical Jurisprudence in Colonial India ✦ Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Member, School of Historical Studies November 28 Islamicist Seminar ✦ Mixing of Cultures: Zarathustra, the Azar Kayvan School, and the Boundaries of Zoroastrian Orthodoxy ✦ Dan Sheffield, Princeton University Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Machiavelli ✦ Mark Jurdjevic, York University; Member, School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar ✦ Bronzescapes in the Medieval Mediterranean ✦ Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center; Member, School of Historical Studies
November 29 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ History through Textual Criticism: Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in Central Eurasia and China ✦ Weirong Shen, Renmin University of China; Member, School of Historical Studies
November 15 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Indigenous Ways of Re-appropriating “Zong-jiao” (“Religion”) in Republican China ✦ Christian Meyer, FriedrichAlexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Member, School of Historical Studies
December 3 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Between Liberty and Authority: Toward a Definition of Late Hume ✦ James A. Harris, University of St Andrews; Member, School of Historical Studies
November 19 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Inserting the Worshipper into the Bible in
December 4 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Anything to Do with Democracy? What Inferences Can We Draw from
the Pattern of Proposers of Inscribed Decrees in the Final Stages of the Classical Athenian Democracy (354 –322 B.C.)? ✦ Stephen A. Lambert, Cardiff University, Member, School of Historical Studies December 5 Islamicist Seminar ✦ Incantation Texts as a Witness to the Mandaean Scriptures ✦ Charles Häberl, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Eighteenth Century Seminar ✦ Portugal and the Luso-Brazilian World in the Age of Revolution ✦ Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University December 6 Workshop: The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of Its Relations with Other Polities in Asia ✦ Introduction ✦ Michael van Walt van Praag, Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies ✦ “Sovereignty” in Manchu and Mongol Politics: A Preliminary Investigation ✦ Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, School of Historical Studies ✦ Imperial Incorporation and the Political Order in Premodern Eurasia: The Chinggisid and the Qing Incorporations in Comparison ✦ Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren, National University of Mongolia; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ The “Wai Fan” (Outer Mongol) as a Successor System of the Northern Yuan Polity ✦ Hiroki Oka, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University ✦ Historical Writing and the Formation of Qing Empire’s Political Influence ✦ Guanjie Niu, Renmin University of China ✦ The Early Qing-Joseon Relationship in the Context of Qing Pluralities of Ruler and State ✦ Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College ✦ Discussant ✦ Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College; Member, School of Historical Studies December 7 Workshop: The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of Its Relations with Other Polities in Asia ✦ Perceptions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty during the Edo Period Japan ✦ Yoshimichi Kusunoki, University of Tsukuba ✦ Qing China as Viewed by Its Neighbors ✦ Peter Perdue, Yale University ✦ Mirror for the Emperor: Muslim Images of China’s Ruler during Manchu Times ✦ Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University ✦ Discussant ✦ Ron Sela, Indiana University; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ Two Emperors’ Understandings of the Relationship between Qing Officials and Tibetan Buddhism Leaders “In the Middle Period” of the “Qing” Dynasty ✦ Nobuaki Murakami, Soka University ✦ Seeing the Qing: Tibetan Perspectives on China’s Rulers during the Early Eighteenth Century ✦ Matthew Kapstein, Divinity School, The University of Chicago ✦ Discussant ✦ Weirong Shen, Renmin University of China; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ Maps and Their Significance: Facilitated
Discussion Introduction ✦ Susan Naquin, Princeton University December 8 Workshop: The Nature of the Manchu Qing Empire and of Its Relations with Other Polities in Asia ✦ Layers and Varieties of Asymmetry in Qing Asia ✦ Brantly Womack, University of Virginia ✦ The Empire’s New Clothes: The Recolonization of the Frontier in Late Qing China ✦ Tong Lam, University of Toronto ✦ “A Fence on Which We Can Rely”: Sovereignty,Territoriality, and the Tibetan Plateau in the Early Twentieth Century ✦ Scott Relyea, Hamline University ✦ Reflections on Sovereignty/Succession, Sovereignty/Conquest, and Sovereignty/Association ✦ Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia December 10 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Literature and the State in Early Modern Europe ✦ Nigel Scott Smith, Princeton University; Member, School of Historical Studies December 11 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Civic Identity in Ostia ✦ Christer Bruun, University of Toronto; Member, School of Historical Studies December 12 Medieval Seminar ✦ A Medieval Conflict Resolution ✦ Giles Constable; Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies Art History Seminar ✦ Images in the Showcase: Where Were Images Installed in Gandharan Buddhist Monasteries ✦ Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National University; Member, School of Historical Studies
Seminar on International Relations ✦ Remapping Odessa: A “Peripatetic” Approach to a Port-City ✦ Evrydiki Sifnaiou, The National Hellenic Research Foundation; Member, School of Historical Studies December 13 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Law and Legal Professionals in Choso˘n Korea: Evidences from Case Studies ✦ Jungwon Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Historical Studies December 17 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Marriage in an Early Modern Egyptian Noble Family ✦ Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara; Member, School of Historical Studies
East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Zheng He’s Thermos: Ming Artifacts, Ming Relics, and Some Problems of Provenance ✦ Bruce Rusk, The University of British Columbia; Member, School of Historical Studies December 19 Art History Seminar ✦ Material Iconology of Bronze Doors in Medieval Italy ✦ Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center; Member, School of Historical Studies January 7 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Second Term Introductions ✦ Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies January 14 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time ✦ André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Historical Studies January 15 Medieval Seminar ✦ Jewish Love Magic and Some Non-Jewish Parallels ✦ Ortal-Paz Saar, Tel Aviv University; Member, School of Historical Studies East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ The Song Dynasty Shapes Its Past: Politics and History in Twelfth-Century China ✦ Charles Hartman, University at Albany, State University of New York; Member, School of Historical Studies January 16 Art History Seminar ✦ Informal Discussion of Talks by Elizabeth Bolman and André Dombrowski ✦ André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Historical Studies Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Le Leibnizo-Newtonianisme et l’Invention et Épistémologique au 18e Siècle ✦ Anne-Lise Rey, Université Lille I; Member, School of Historical Studies January 22 Medieval Seminar ✦ Women Seen through the Cairo Genizah ✦ Renée Levine Melammed, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; Member, School of Historical Studies Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Women’s Lives in Mediterranean Society as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah ✦ Renée
Levine Melammed, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; Member, School of Historical Studies January 23 Art History Seminar ✦ Barnett Newman’s The Wild ✦ Yve-Alain Bois; Professor, School of Historical Studies January 28 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Roman Imperialism: Modern Perceptions and Archaeological Realities ✦ Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan; Member, School of Historical Studies January 29 Medieval Seminar ✦ Commerce under Mongol Rule: Revisiting Asian Trade between the Mediterranean and China (ca. 1300 –60) ✦ Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, School of Historical Studies January 30 Eighteenth Century Seminar ✦ “I Live Almost Wholly in the Fields”: Artistic Practice and Agricultural Process in John Constable’s “Wheat Field,”1815–16 ✦ Timothy Barringer, Yale University January 31 Panel Discussion with the Director Oliver Stone ✦ (Ancient) History on Screen ✦ Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Member, School of Historical Studies; Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies; Yannis Hamilakis, University of Southampton; Member, School of Historical Studies; and Gary Leva, University of Southern California February 4 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Indistinct Images: Reading Buddha Images from Gandharan Monasteries ✦ Juhyung Rhi, Seoul National University; Member, School of Historical Studies February 5 Medieval Seminar ✦ Magic in the Early Medieval West? ✦ Yitzhak Hen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Member, School of Historical Studies February 6 Seminar on International Relations ✦ Addressing Perceptions of History in Intrastate Conflicts ✦ Michael van Walt van Praag, Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies Art History Seminar ✦ Walter Benjamin’s Two Angels ✦ Anthony Vidler, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Member, School of Historical Studies
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Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Odessa ✦ Evrydiki Sifnaiou, The National Hellenic Research Foundation; Member, School of Historical Studies
December 18 Seminar on International Relations ✦ Dialects, Speech, and Information: Chao Yuen Ren’s Route to Cybernetics ✦ Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto; Member, School of Historical Studies
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February 11 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Alternative Modernism: Underground Art Production during the Cultural Revolution ✦ Aihe Wang, The University of Hong Kong; Member, School of Historical Studies February 12 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Geography, Movement, and the Acts of Thomas ✦ Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Member, School of Historical Studies East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Dialects, Speech, and Information: Chao Yuen Ren’s Route to Cybernetics ✦ Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto; Member, School of Historical Studies February 13 Early Modern History Workshop ✦ The Bureaucratization of Succession ✦ Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara; Member, School of Historical Studies February 19 Medieval Seminar ✦ Introductions Written by the Translators of the Commentary to the Mishnah: A Historical Perspective ✦ Uri Melammed, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Seminar on International Relations ✦ Politics, Grassroots Utopias, and Desencuentros in the Salvadoran Revolution ✦ Jeffrey Lawrence Gould, Indiana University; Member, School of Historical Studies
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East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ The Qing Transformation of Mongolia: Structural Tribalization and Ethnicization ✦ MunkhErdene Lhamsuren, National University of Mongolia; Member, School of Historical Studies
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February 20 Islamicist Seminar ✦ Who Wrote the Babylonian Incantation Bowls? On Literacy, Pseudo-Script, and the Earnestness of Magic ✦ Ortal-Paz Saar, Tel Aviv University; Member, School of Historical Studies Eighteenth Century Seminar ✦ Hume, Rapin, and the Varieties of Whiggism ✦ James A. Harris, University of St Andrews; Member, School of Historical Studies February 22 Workshop on Greek Epigraphy: Epigraphic Friday ✦ Altars and Dedications in Palmyra ✦ Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ A New Epitaph from Northern Jordan ✦ Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies ✦ New Inscriptions from Aphrodisias ✦ Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical
Studies ✦ Observations on an Inscription from Cos ✦ Marc Domingo Gygax, Princeton University ✦ An Inscription from Attea (Mysia) ✦ Christopher Jones, Harvard University ✦ Epigraphic Evidence for Ptolemaios Keraunos ✦ Pierre Juhel ✦ Fourth-Century Athenian Laws and Decrees: Some Interconnected Developments? ✦ Stephen Lambert, University of Cardiff; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ New Arbitration Documents from Messene (SEG LVIII 370) ✦ Nino Luraghi, Princeton University ✦ A Lease of Sacred Lands from Eastern Phokis (IG IX 1.87) ✦ Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania ✦ Unpublished Inscriptions from Thebes ✦ Nikos Papazarkadas, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University ✦ Two Honorary Inscriptions from Iulia Gordos ✦ Marijane Ricl, University of Belgrade; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ The Lapis Primus of the Athenian Tribute Lists ✦ Stephen Tracy, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Visitor, School of Historical Studies ✦ Proxeny Networks in the Cyclades ✦ John Tully February 25 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ A Clash of Archaeologies? Time, Materiality, and Antiquities in the Premodern and Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean ✦ Yannis Hamilakis, University of Southampton; Member, School of Historical Studies February 26 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ The Cult of Men Axiottenos in the Lydian Katakekaumene Region ✦ Marijana Ricl, University of Belgrade; Member, School of Historical Studies Medieval Seminar ✦ How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Renaissance Scholars on the Jewish Origins of Christianity ✦ Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Seminar on International Relations ✦ Toward a New History of Christian Democracy ✦ JanWerner Mueller, Princeton University; Member, School of Historical Studies February 27 Art History Seminar ✦ Leonardo’s Watery Chaos ✦ Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies Islamicist Seminar ✦ Divine Law, Cosmic Law: An Antinomian Streak in Ibn al-’Arabi?’ ✦ Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara; Member, School of Historical Studies February 28 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Righting the Ruan: A Reassessment of the History of the “Chinese” Round-Bodied Lute ✦ Ingrid Maren Furniss, Lafayette College; Member, School of Historical Studies
March 4 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ A History of the “Soviet”: The Lingua Franca of Soviet Modernity ✦ Anna Krylova, Duke University; Member, School of Historical Studies March 5 Medieval Seminar ✦ Liturgies of the Monastic Self in Symeon the New Theologian ✦ Derek Krueger, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Member, School of Historical Studies Early Modern History Workshop ✦ Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Dutch Republic: “True Freedom” and an Anglo-Dutch Perspective ✦ Nigel Scott Smith, Princeton University; Member, School of Historical Studies East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Liberation Sinology and Decolonial Terror in Japan: 1862–89 ✦ Mark William Driscoll, University of North Carolina; Member, School of Historical Studies March 11 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Music from the Margins: The Art and Archaeology of Lutes in Premodern Chinese Society ✦ Ingrid Maren Furniss, Lafayette College; Member, School of Historical Studies March 12 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Greco-Roman Binding Spells and Babylonian Magic Bowls: Similarities and Differences ✦ Ortal-Paz Saar, Tel Aviv University; Member, School of Historical Studies East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Art and Community during the Cultural Revolution ✦ Aihe Wang, The University of Hong Kong; Member, School of Historical Studies Seminar on International Relations ✦ Toward a History of the “Soviet”: The Lingua Franca of Soviet Modernity ✦ Anna Krylova, Duke University; Member, School of Historical Studies March 13 Art History Seminar ✦ Color: A User’s Guide ✦ Amy Silman, Artist ✦ Can a Color Be Egoistic? ✦ Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, School of Historical Studies March 18 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ How Brutal Was It? A Gentle Manifesto for “Brutalism” in Architecture ✦ Anthony Vidler, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Member, School of Historical Studies
March 19 Medieval Seminar ✦ Jewish Sources and Christian Polemic at St Victor, ca. 1150 ✦ Frans van Liere, Calvin College; Member, School of Historical Studies March 20 Art History Seminar ✦ Living on Manet’s Balcony, or The Right to Privacy ✦ André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Historical Studies Islamicist Seminar ✦ How to Read Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics ✦ Frédérique Woerther, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Member, School of Historical Studies March 25 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ The Leibnizian-Newtonian Synthesis: The Construction of a Composite Natural Philosophy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century ✦ Anne-Lise Rey, Université Lille I; Member, School of Historical Studies March 26 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ The Role of the Publicity Stunt in Athenian Democratic Politics ✦ Alex Gottesman, Temple University; Member, School of Historical Studies Medieval Seminar ✦ Understanding Medieval Migration through Ancient DNA ✦ Patrick J. Geary, Professor, School of Historical Studies March 27 Islamicist Seminar ✦ Cyclical Time in Ikhwan al-Safa’ and Early Kabbalistic Writings: Preliminary Considerations ✦ Ehud Krinis, University of Pennsylvania
April 2 Ancient Studies Seminar ✦ Fragments and Testimonies of Apollodoros of Pergamon and Theodoros of Gadara: A New Edition ✦ Frédérique Woerther, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Member, School of Historical Studies Seminar on International Relations ✦ “Nazione Impero”: Nation-Building, Empire, and Population Settlement in the Fascist Era, 1922–43 ✦ Roberta Pergher, Indiana University; Member, School of Historical Studies April 3 Art History Seminar ✦ Current Work on Michelangelo ✦ Maria Loh, University
Early Modern History Workshop ✦ What Is Science According to Nietzsche? ✦ Helmut Heit, Technische Universität Berlin; Member, School of Historical Studies April 5 Workshop: Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered ✦ Nietzsche’s Experimental Naturalism ✦ Helmut Heit, Technische Universität Berlin; Member, School of Historical Studies ✦ Nietzsche’s Kind of Naturalism ✦ Richard Schacht, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign April 6 Workshop: Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered ✦ Nietzsche’s Naturalism Reconsidered ✦ Brian Leiter, University of Chicago Law School ✦ Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Values ✦ Maudemarie Clark, Colgate University ✦ Nietzsche’s Naturalized Values ✦ John Richardson, New York University ✦ Nietzsche and Spinoza ✦ Jonathan Israel, Professor, School of Historical Studies ✦ Naturalism and the Nietzschean Self ✦ R. Lanier Anderson, Stanford University ✦ Nietzsche’s Naturalism ✦ Christa Davis Acampora, New York University ✦ AntiSupernaturalism ✦ Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University April 9 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Ornament as Dialogue: The Interpretation of Chinese Art in European Palace Displays ✦ Gregory M. Thomas, The University of Hong Kong April 10 Art History Seminar ✦ Mistakes and Cultural Limits in Renaissance Vitruvianism: The Case of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger ✦ Francesco Benelli, Columbia University April 11 East Asian Studies Seminar ✦ Legal Knowledge and Law Enforcement in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China ✦ Yanhong Wu, Zhejiang University, China May 30 Worlds in Motion: Rome, China, and the Eurasian Steppe in Late Antiquity, ca. 250– 650 C.E. ✦ From Anacharsis to the Avars: Roman Views on Migration and the Eurasian Steppe in Historical Perspective ✦ Michael Maas, Rice University ✦ China–Steppe Relations in Historical Perspective ✦ Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, School of Historical Studies ✦ Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier: Offense, Defense, and Diplomatic Entente ✦ Daniel Potts, New York University ✦ Two Approaches to the Representation of the Northern Dynasties: Chinese or Inner Asian ✦ Luo Xin, Peking University ✦ Peoples and Movements
across Europe: The Völkerwanderungen Reconsidered ✦ Michael Kulikowski, The Pennsylvania State University ✦ Tree Rings, Climate, and People in Central Asia ✦ Amy Hessl, West Virginia University ✦ NetworkBased Approaches to Understanding Economic, Social, and Political Dynamics on and across the Steppe ✦ Derek Ruths, McGill University ✦ Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia 500 –1000 ✦ Patrick J. Geary, Professor, School of Historical Studies May 31 Worlds in Motion: Rome, China, and the Eurasian Steppe in Late Antiquity, ca. 250– 650 C.E. ✦ Mapping the Routes of Eurasia: From Maes Titianus to the Armenian Geography ✦ Giusto Traina, Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Université Paris-Sorbonne ✦ Negotiated Power: Ecologies and Modes of Politics in Northern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries ✦ Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham ✦ Aspects of Elite Representation among the Early Türks (before ca. 630 A.D.) ✦ Sören Stark, New York University ✦ Fall of the Northern Wei: Collapse of a Sino-Altaic Regime ✦ Andrew Eisenberg, Northeastern Illinois University ✦ Coins and Peoples across the Hindu Kush ✦ Michael Alram, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Austrian Academy of Sciences ✦ Slavery,Trade, and Cultural Exchange on Rome’s Eastern Frontier ✦ Noel Lenski, University of Colorado ✦ The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use between Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Turks ✦ Frantz Grenet, École Pratique des Hautes Études ✦ Luminous Markers: Pearl Imagery and the Pearl Trade in Late Antique Eurasia ✦ Joel Walker, University of Washington June 1 Worlds in Motion: Rome, China, and the Eurasian Steppe in Late Antiquity, ca. 250650 C.E. ✦ Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire ✦ Mark Whittow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University ✦ The Crisis of the State ✦ Guy Halsall, University of York ✦ Stateless Nomads of Central Asia ✦ Peter Golden, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ Political Formation and Sustentation Among Imperial Nomads: The Early Turkic Empires ✦ Michael Drompp, Rhodes College ✦ The Patrimonial Political Cultures of the Medieval Tang and Turkic Empires ✦ Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University ✦ Sasanian Persia and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia: Competing Cosmologies and Political Landscapes Between and Beyond Ctesiphon, Constantinople, and Chang’an ✦ Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota ✦ New Lords and the End of the Roman Empire: A Comparative Perspective ✦ Bryan Ward-Perkins, Oxford University ✦ Conference Summation ✦ Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies
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April 1 Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series ✦ Moving Syrians and Syrian Culture in the Ancient World ✦ Nathanael Andrade, University of Oregon; Member, School of Historical Studies
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Professor Emeritus Enrico Bombieri (at chalkboard) with Lawrence Guth (Member 2010–11) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who gave a Marston Morse Lecture on unexpected applications of polynomials in combinatorics (video available at http://video.ias.edu/marston-morse/1213).
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Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor Helmut Hofer Robert MacPherson, Hermann Weyl Professor Peter Sarnak Thomas Spencer Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor Vladimir Voevodsky Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor
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Enrico Bombieri Pierre Deligne Phillip A. Griffiths Robert P. Langlands
uring the academic year 2012–13, the School of Mathematics conducted a special program on a new approach to the foundations of mathematics titled Univalent Foundations of Mathematics. The program was co-organized by Professor Vladimir Voevodsky of the School and Members Steve Awodey of Carnegie Mellon University and Thierry Coquand of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. There were approximately twenty-five participating Members as well as many short-term visitors.
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Two discoveries have led to the possibility of a new foundation on the basis of type theory. The first one is Grothendieck’s conjecture, proved by Mikhail Kapranov of the Steklov Institute and Voevodsky, which states that the “world” of infinity groupoids is the same as the world of homotopy types. The second one is a method of introducing equality in constructive type theories that goes back to Member Per Martin-Löf of Stockholm University. Two more factors played instrumental roles in making possible the univalent foundations as they are now: the work of Awodey and his coworkers on the homotopy-theoretic interpretation of Martin-Löf identity types, which relates the two discoveries just mentioned and the existence of the proof assistant Coq, which is based on the Martin-Löf type theory. Voevodsky has worked on computer-based proof assistants since 2004, when the word “univalent” appeared in this context for the first time. Especially important was the 2009 course on programming languages taught by Andrew Appel in Princeton University’s computer science department in the fall of 2009, which was based on the use of Coq. The resulting conception of univalent foundations is a foundational system of type theory with an intrinsic homotopical character, augmented by principles of reasoning such as Voevodsky’s new univalence
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The program provided an alternative to the commonly accepted approach to the foundations of mathematics based on Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice. Univalent foundations are based instead on type theory, which has recently experienced renewed interest due to its use in computer proof assistants, for which it is better suited than set theory due to its good computational properties. The idea of univalent foundations of mathematics was proposed by Voevodsky in 2010. His vision is to remake the foundations so that pure mathematicians can take full advantage of computer assistants.
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axiom, which strengthen this interpretation, and with an accompanying implementation in a computational proof assistant.
Member Eric Finster, whose research focused on the connections between homotopy theory, higher category theory, and computer science, gave a tutorial on univalent foundations.
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Members of an international team of more than two dozen researchers in computer science, logic, and mathematics participated in a special program co-organized by Professor Vladimir Voevodsky and Members Steve Awodey and Thierry Coquand. During the year, the team developed a new branch of mathematics called homotopy type theory and the related univalent foundations of mathematics, which can be used to verify the correctness of individual mathematical proofs and facilitate the large-scale formalization of mathematics.
In the first term, Voevodsky lectured weekly on the subject of type systems. A working group devoted to the Coq system was organized by Member Andrej Bauer of the University of Ljubljana and focused on modifying the Coq proof assistant to be more useful for univalent foundations. Contributors to this effort were Members Hugo Herbelin, Assia Mahboubi, and Matthieu Sozeau, all from the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. By the end of the first term, a working system was in place for use during term two. Another working group was devoted to developing a systematic, informal style of type theory. This project, organized by Member Peter Aczel of the University of Manchester, soon evolved into the large-scale project of writing a book in which the basics of univalent foundations and the results of the special year are developed in an exemplary informal style. A third working group was devoted to formalizing homotopy theory in type theory. The main contributors to this effort were visiting student Guillaume Brunerie of the École Normale SupÊrieure, Paris, and Members Dan Licata, Peter Lumsdaine, and Michael Shulman. During the second term, three main directions of work formed, each of which resulted in a noteworthy product. One was the development of basic homotopy theory in univalent foundations, including new type theoretic proofs and their formalization in the Coq system. Many homotopy groups of spheres were calculated and their proofs formalized, as were other classic results of homotopy theory. Another emphasis was the writing of the book on the univalent foundations by Members in the School. This book, available
free online at www.homotopytypetheory.org/book, is a remarkable collaborative effort and should serve as a useful resource for teaching homotopy type theory and disseminating the results of the special year. As a third area, work on a next-generation proof assistant was started. Access http://uf-ias-2012.wikispaces.com/seminar for a list of all seminars and http://uf-ias-2012.wikispaces.com/Tutorials for all tutorials. OTHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
In the spring, the thirty-fifth Marston Morse Lectures were delivered by Lawrence Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Guth gave three lectures, “Unexpected Applications of Polynomials in Combinatorics,” “What Is Special about Polynomials?,” and “The Codimension Barrier in Incidence Geometry.”
Hofer continued work on his long-term project on polyfolds and symplectic field theory, collaborating with Member Eduard Zehnder from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule and former Member Kris Wysocki of the Pennsylvania State University.
The Thursday afternoon joint IAS and Princeton University Number Theory Seminar, which alternates between the two campuses, continues to attract a large audience. Organized by Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor, and Professor Peter Sarnak, breakthroughs in the field were announced regularly in this seminar. This year there were presentations by Visitor Christopher Skinner of Princeton; Manjul Bhargava, also of Princeton; and Jack Thorne of Harvard University. In March of 2013, Sarnak organized a one-day mini-workshop at the Institute in analytic methods in number theory. There were four lectures by postdoctoral mathematicians, Adam Harper of Université de Montréal, Miguel Walsh of Universidad de Buenos Aires, Julio Cesar Andrade of the University of Bristol, and Brad Rodgers of the University of California, Los Angeles. Sarnak and Nalini Anantharaman, a von Neumann Fellow in the School, have been
Member Aleksey Zinger (left) with Professor Helmut Hofer (right), who organized a joint symplectic geometry seminar with Princeton University and continued to work on his long-term project on polyfolds and symplectic field theory.
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Mathematical Conversations, organized by Members Marian Gidea of Northeastern Illinois University, Michael Lesnick, and Dan Licata, continues to be a popular weekly event attended by Faculty, Members, short-term visitors, and mathematicians from neighboring universities. This is an informal seminar covering many aspects of mathematics and occasionally physics and biology. The emphasis is on a creating a dialog between the speaker and the audience. Some of the highlights of the seminars included talks by Members Bhargav Bhatt and Assia Mahboubi; Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences; and Tom Hales of the University of Pittsburg.
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Professor Helmut Hofer and Gang Tian of Princeton University organized the joint symplectic geometry seminar. Speakers were short-term visitors Jean-Michel Bismut of the Université Paris-Sud, Mohammed Abouzaid of Columbia University and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University, Kenji Fukaya of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu of Columbia University, Emmy Murphy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ana Rita Pires of Cornell University, Paul Seidel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard Kenyon of Brown University, Jean-Pierre Marco of Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Yakov Eliashberg of Stanford University, and Leonid Polterovich of Tel Aviv University and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.
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working with their students on projects connected with quantum chaos. Sarnak’s longer-term collaborations have continued with Amit Ghosh of Oklahoma State University; Elena Fuchs of the University of California, Berkeley; Jianya Liu of Shandong University; Zeev Rudnick of Tel Aviv University; Adrián Ubis of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Andre Reznikov of BarIlan University; and Alexander Gamburd of the University of California, Santa Cruz, all of whom have been at the Institute in recent years.
Member Nalini Anantharaman gave a seminar on quantum ergodicity on large regular graphs.
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Wilhelm Schlag (far left; Member 1996–97, 2011) of the University of Chicago with Professor Thomas Spencer (far right) and Members following Schlag’s analysis seminar on large data dynamics for nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations (video available at http://video.ias.edu/1213/analysis0201-WilhelmSchlag)
Recently the mathematical community learned about a remarkable result of Yitang (Tom) Zhang, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. The result demonstrates the existence of an even number k, which is at most 107, for which x and x+k are both prime for infinitely many x. It relies heavily on two ingredients: first, the work from 2005 of former Members Daniel Goldston of San Jose State University, Cem Yalçin Yildirim of Bogaziçi University, and János Pintz of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, and, second, the research of Professor Emeritus Enrico Bombieri and former Members John Friedlander of the University of Toronto and Henryk Iwaniec of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Their work on levels of distribution of primes in progressions goes beyond what can be obtained from the generalized Riemann hypothesis. This year’s Analysis Seminar, organized by Member Aynur Bulut, covered a broad range of topics including mathematical physics, partial differential equations, dynamical systems, and geometry. The seminar included talks by Israel Sigal of the University of Toronto on vortices in superconductors, and Member Marian Gidea of Northeastern Illinois University on instability of a general class of driven Hamiltonian systems. Organized by Member Mark Goresky, the Members Seminar served as a colloquium-style seminar designed to give Members an overview of recent developments in mathematics. Nalini Anantharaman’s lecture “Quantum Ergodicity on Large Regular Graphs” and Percy Deift’s lecture on Toeplitz matrices and the Ising model were excellent examples of these seminars. Jürg Fröhlich from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich is at the Institute for two years as a Visiting Professor. He is one of the leading figures in mathematical physics. This year, his research at the Institute focused on the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum probability, and the Hamiltonian origins of friction.
Professor Thomas Spencer continued his work with Margherita Disertori of Université de Rouen and Member Tatyana Shcherbyna on supersymmetric models in statistical mechanics and their relation to random matrix theory. He and Fröhlich have formulated and partially proved a conjecture about the universality of mean field theory in many statistical mechanics models. Shcherbyna proved a sharp result about such mean field behavior for Gaussian band matrices in one dimension. These conjectures are inspired by early work of Eugene Wigner and Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences. There were a number of interesting results proved in analysis by Members in the School. Using invariant measures, Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor, and Member Aynur Bulut proved that nonlinear wave and Schrödinger equations are globally well-posed for radial supercritical data. Member Marius Beceanu established new dispersive estimates for the solution of the Schrödinger equation with time-dependent potentials. Veblen Research Instructor Costante Bellettini established new regularity results for calibrations.
Professor Spencer and Visiting Professor Fröhlich formulated and partially proved a conjecture about the universality of mean field theory in many statistical mechanics models––a conjecture inspired by the early work of Eugene Wigner and Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences.
Taylor, together with Visitors Sophie Morel and Christopher Skinner of Princeton University, organized a year-long study group on perfectoid spaces. Several mathematicians from Princeton attended the meetings as well as Veblen Research Instructor David Geraghty and Members Xin Wan, Bhargav Bhatt, Stefan Patrikis, and Jun Yu. A description of the Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics (CSDM) program and all its activities, including two weekly seminars—with links to videos—can be found on the CSDM website, www.math.ias.edu/csdm. As part of CSDM’s partnership on the Center for Computational Intractability (CCI), Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, continued his extensive collaborations with Princeton University, Rutgers, and New York University.
Professor Avi Wigderson gave a seminar on basic approaches to derandomizing probabilistic logspace computations (video available at http://video.ias.edu/csdm/1213/0226AviWigderson).
A complete listing of all workshops, meetings, and seminars, and video recordings of all events can be found in the CCI website, http://intractability.princeton.edu.
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Hermann Weyl Professor Robert MacPherson held a weekly graduate course and research seminar on applications of sheaf theory, with participation from Institute postdoctoral Members and students from Princeton University, Rutgers, and the University of Pennsylvania. MacPherson pursued joint research projects centering on applications of topology with Matthew Kahle of the Ohio State University, Menachem Lazar of Columbia University, and Jeremy Mason of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, all recent Institute Members, and with Amit
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MacPherson also organized this year’s Workshop on Topology: “Identifying Order in Complex Systems” together with Randall Kamien of the University of Pennsylvania and Konstantin Mischaikow of Rutgers. Locations of the workshops alternated between Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania. Talks by term I speakers were: Robert Behringer, Duke University, “Granular Materials and Their Networks Near Jamming”; Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania, “Topology and Electronic Phases of Matter”; Govind Menon, Brown University, “Building Polyhedra by Self-Assembly”; Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University, “Continuum Percolation and Duality with Equilibrium Hard-Hyperparticle Systems”; Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Dynamic Programming for Ad-initio Predictions of Protein Folding Routes”; and Greg Huber, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Membranes, Curvature, and the Endoplasmic Reticulum.” The last workshop for the term was held in conjunction with the symposium “Through the Looking Glass” at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
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Professor Robert MacPherson (center) held a weekly graduate course and research seminar on applications of sheaf theory and co-organized a topology workshop on identifying order in complex systems.
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Member Daniel Grayson (left) with Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences
During the second term speakers were: Yusu Wang, the Ohio State University, “Visualizing and Exploring Molecular Simulation Data via Protein Energy Landscape Metaphor”; Tsvi Tlusty, Member, School of Natural Sciences, “Loops and Self Reference in Language and Life”; David Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania, “Properties of Cellular Microstructures: Polycrystals, Foams, and Their Idealizations”; Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania, “Evolutionary Dynamics on Correlated Fitness
Landscapes”; and Stephen Watson, University of Glasgow, “Toward a Covariant Theory of Coarsening via Emergent Symmetries.” Professor Emeritus Pierre Deligne was awarded the 2013 Abel Prize for his “seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.” Deligne’s novel ideas and resolution of long-standing problems have permeated these fields to the point where a significant portion of current research cannot be formulated without reference to his work. Bourgain was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and Wigderson was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. OUTREACH
A list of all School activities may be found at www.math.ias.edu /activities. Many of the seminars are recorded and may be viewed at http://v ideo.ias.edu/sm. In the spring of 2013, Sarnak gave the Myhill Lectures at the University of Buffalo. In October, Hofer gave the inaugural lecture at the University of Leipzig for the opening of the Felix Klein College. The title of the lecture was “At the Interface of Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry.” During late April and early May, Hofer gave the Aisenstadt Lectures, a series of three lectures, the first one of which was aimed at a general scientific audience. The title of the series was “Hamiltonian Dynamics and Symplectic Rigidity.”
The archive containing the unpublished notes of Atle Selberg, who served on the School’s Faculty from 1951 until his death in 2007, is now housed in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center on the campus of the Institute. The archive was prepared by Institute staff with assistance from former Member Dennis Hejhal of the University of Minnesota. A finding aid for the Atle Selberg papers may be found at http://library.ias.edu/finding-aids/selberg.
Professor Emeritus Pierre Deligne was awarded the 2013 Abel Prize for his “seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.” Deligne’s novel ideas and resolution of long-standing problems have permeated these fields to the point where a significant portion of current research cannot be formulated without reference to his work.
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Wigderson gave the plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics in Aalborg, Denmark, in August; the public lecture at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, in September; the Rademacher Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania in November; and the William Mong Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong. In addition, he participated in the Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for high school students. In April, Goresky delivered a public lecture in Wolfensohn Hall titled “A Hollywood Celebrity, the Bad Boy of Music, and the History of Modern Wireless Communications.” The twentieth annual Program for Women and Mathematics was held at the Institute from May 13 to May 24, 2013. The title of this year’s program was “Combinatorics and Graph Theory 2013.” More information about the program activities follows this report and can also be found at www.math.ias.edu/wam.
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The Leonardo da Vinci Lectures in Milan were given by Spencer, whose lecture was titled “Symmetry Statistical Mechanics and Random Matrices,” and by Fröhlich, whose lecture was titled “The Problem of Dynamics in Quantum Theory.”
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MEMBERS AND VISITORS f First Term ✦ s Second Term ✦ m Long-term Member ✦ v Visitor ✦ vp Visiting Professor ✦ j Joint Member School of Natural Sciences ✦ vri Veblen Research Instructorship ✦ vnf von Neumann Fellowship Peter Aczel Mathematical Logic ✦ The University of Manchester Benedikt Ahrens Semantics of Programming Languages ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Peter Albers Symplectic Geometry ✦ Westfälische WilhelmsUniversität Münster ✦ v Thorsten Altenkirch Computer Science, Univalent Foundations ✦ University of Nottingham ✦ s Nalini Anantharaman Mathematics ✦ Université Paris-Sud 11 ✦ vnf, s Funding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided by the Fernholz Foundation Stefanos Aretakis Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri Steve Awodey Univalent Foundations ✦ Carnegie Mellon University Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment
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Nils A. Baas Algebraic Topology, Systems Biology ✦ Norwegian University of Science and Technology ✦ j, s
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Bruno Barras Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ✦ f Andrej Bauer Logic, Computation ✦ University of Ljubljana ✦ f Marius Beceanu Partial Differential Equations ✦ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Costante Bellettini Mathematics and Geometric Analysis ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri Funding provided by the Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund and the National Science Foundation Yves Bertot Computer Science ✦ Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ✦ s Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Marc Bezem Mathematical Logic, Computer Science ✦ University of Bergen ✦ s Bhargav Bhatt Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Jochen Wulf Bruening Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis ✦ Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin ✦ f Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Aynur Bulut Partial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided by the Fernholz Foundation Marc Burger Lie Groups ✦ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ✦ s Jing Chen Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Zurich Financial Services Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation Tsao-Hsien Chen Representation Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Thierry Coquand Type Theory and Constructive Mathematics ✦ University of Gothenburg Funding provided by the Ellentuck Fund and the Charles Simonyi Endowment Percy A. Deift Mathematical Physics ✦ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University ✦ s Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment
Andrew Drucker Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Klim Efremenko Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Charles Simonyi Endowment Eric Lee Finster Mathematics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Charles Frances Conformal Geometry, Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry ✦ Université Paris-Sud 11 ✦ s The Bell Companies Fellowship; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Jürg Fröhlich Theoretical and Mathematical Physics ✦ Eidengenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ✦ vp Funding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation Radhika Ganapathy Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided by the Fernholz Foundation David Geraghty Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Marian Gidea Dynamical Systems ✦ Northeastern Illinois University Wushi Goldring Number Theory, Galois Representations, Automorphic Forms ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ f Funding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund Mark Goresky Geometry, Automorphic Forms ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m Funding provided by the James D.Wolfensohn Fund Daniel Grayson Mathematics ✦ University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign AMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Robert Guralnick Group Theory and Representation Theory ✦ University of Southern California ✦ v
Philipp Habegger Number Theory ✦ Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ✦ vnf, s Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Julia Hartmann Algebra ✦ RWTH Aachen University ✦ vnf, f Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Doris Hein Symplectic Geometry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Hugo Herbelin Computer Science ✦ Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ✦ f Nancy Hingston Differential Topology and Geometry ✦ The College of New Jersey Yi Hu Analysis ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Hao Huang Combinatorics,Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Alessandra Iozzi Lie Groups ✦ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ✦ s Funding provided by the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professorship Fund André Joyal Category Theory, Homotopy Theory, Logic ✦ Université du Québec à Montréal ✦ s Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment
Payman Kassaei Arithmetic Geometry ✦ King’s College London ✦ v, f Gillat Kol Theory of Computation ✦ Weizmann Institute of Science ✦ v, f Dieter Kotschick Geometry and Topology ✦ Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität München Funding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund
Pierre Le Boudec Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Michael Lesnick Applied Algebraic Topology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Dong Li Mathematical Physics, Fluid Dynamics ✦ The University of British Columbia ✦ vnf Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Jing Li Applied Mathematics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v, f Dan Licata Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Oswald Veblen Fund Shachar Lovett Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ f Funding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine Categorical Logic and Formalization of Mathematics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Assia Mahboubi Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique ✦ vnf, f Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Per Martin-Löf Logic ✦ Stockholm University ✦ f Mark McLean Differential Geometry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ f Or Meir Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Oswald Veblen Fund Raghu Meka Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v
Sergey Melikhov Geometric Topology, Homotopy Type Theory ✦ Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences ✦ s Manor Mendel Metric Geometry,Theoretical Computer Science ✦ The Open University of Israel ✦ vnf Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Ankur Moitra Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Sophie Morel Shimura Varieties ✦ Princeton University ✦ v Jelani Nelson Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Stefan Patrikis Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Alvaro Pelayo Symplectic Geometry, Special Theory of Integrable Systems ✦ Washington University in St. Louis ✦ v/f, s Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Andrew Polonsky Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ s Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Gopal Prasad Lie Groups, Algebraic Groups, Arithmetic Groups ✦ University of Michigan ✦ f Sivaguru Ravisankar Several Complex Variables ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the James D.Wolfensohn Fund Ran Raz Computational Complexity ✦ Weizmann Institute of Science ✦ vp, f Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Visiting Professor; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Arul Shankar Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
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Tasho Kaletha Group Theory, Automorphic Forms ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri
Ravishankar Krishnaswamy Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v
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Tatyana Shcherbyna Mathematical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided by the Fernholz Foundation Nick Sheridan Symplectic Geometry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Michael Shulman Mathematics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Ali Kemal Sinop Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v Christopher Skinner Number Theory ✦ Princeton University ✦ v Anders Södergren Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Matthieu Sozeau Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ f Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment Bas Spitters Mathematics and Computer Science ✦ Radboud University Nijmegen ✦ s Christine J. Taylor Evolutionary Game Theory, Evolution of Cooperation ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Funding provided by the Fernholz Foundation
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Mina Teicher Algebraic Geometry ✦ Bar-Ilan University ✦ v
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Benno van den Berg Mathematics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ s Ilya Volkovich Theoretical Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v Xin Wan Number Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematics Research Fund and the National Science Foundation Fang Wang Microlocal Analysis, Geometric Scattering Theory, General Relativity, Partial Differential Equations ✦ Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University ✦ vri
Michael A. Warren Computer Science, Homotopy Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund Jun Yu Computer Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ s Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics ✦ Derived de Rham Cohomology ✦ Bhargav Bhatt, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Mechanisms Leveraging Arbitrary Set-Theoretic Belief Hierarchies ✦ Jing Chen, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Categorical Langlands Correspondence in Positive Characteristic ✦ TsaoHsien Chen, Member, School of Mathematics
Eduard Zehnder Analysis, Dynamical System, Symplectic Geometry ✦ Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment
September 26 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
Noam Zeilberger Computer Science ✦ Stony Brook University, The State University of New York Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
September 27 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Overview of Univalent Foundations ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
Aleksey Zinger Symplectic Topology ✦ Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ The Complexity of Transforming Problem Instances ✦ Andrew Drucker, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Locally Decodable Codes ✦ Klim Efremenko, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Higher Dimensional Syntax ✦ Eric Finster, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Representation Theory of Groups over Close Local Fields ✦ Radhika Ganapathy, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Galois Representations and Modular Forms of Non-Regular Weight ✦ David Geraghty, Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics ✦ Irregular Automorphic Galois Representations ✦ Wushi Goldring, Member, School of Mathematics
David Zywina Arithmetic, Algebraic Geometry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
RECORD OF EVENTS September 20 Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Toward Weak p-adic Langlands for GL(n) ✦ Claus Sorensen, Princeton University September 24 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ The Computational Complexity of Geometric Topology Problems ✦ Greg Kuperberg, University of California, Davis Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Organizational Meeting September 25 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Koiran + Geometric Topology Implies “Knottedness Is in NP” ✦ Greg Kuperberg, University of California, Davis Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ Syntax and Semantics ✦ Benedikt Ahrens, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Dispersive Estimates for Wave and Schrödinger Equations ✦ Marius Beceanu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Stability and Instability of Extremal Black Holes ✦ Stefanos Aretakis,
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September 28 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Dynamics ✦ Doris Hein, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Discrete Fourier Restriction Phenomenon and Associated Dispersive Equations ✦ Yi Hu, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Graph Coloring, Biclique Partition, and Communication Complexity ✦ Hao Huang, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Counting Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces ✦ Pierre Le Boudec, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Topological Data Analysis and Persistent Homology ✦ Michael Lesnick, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Computing with Univalence ✦ Dan Licata, Member, School of Mathematics Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Algebraic Structures Associated to Weinstein Manifolds ✦ Yasha Eliashberg, Stanford University
October 1 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Random Vectors, Random Matrices, Permuted Products, Permanents, and Diagrammatic Fun ✦ Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ Symplectic Geometry of Smooth Affine Varieties ✦ Mark McLean, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Information Theoretic Arguments for Circuit Lower Bounds ✦ Or Meir, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Sketching and Streaming Algorithms ✦ Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Lifting Projective Galois Representations ✦ Stefan Patrikis, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Tangential Lipschitz Gain for Holomorphic Functions ✦ Sivaguru Ravisankar, Member, School of Mathematics October 2 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Plug Your Ears! Graph Isomorphism, Siren of the Algebraic Seas, Calls to Your Quantum Helmsman ✦ Alex Russell, University of Connecticut Univalent Foundations Tutorial ✦ Homotopy Type Theory ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics October 3 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type System ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Topology and Electronic Phases of Matter ✦ Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania ✦ Building Polyhedra by Self-Assembly ✦ Govind Menon, Brown University ✦ Granular Materials and Their Networks Near Jamming ✦ Robert Behringer, Duke University October 4 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Homotopy Type Theory in Coq ✦ Michael A. Warren, Member, School of Mathematics Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ Iwasawa Theory for Unitary Groups ✦ Xin Wan, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Hope for a Type-Theoretic Understanding of Zero-
Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ A Converse Theorem for SL2 ✦ Vinayak Vatsal, The University of British Columbia October 5 Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Noise ✦ Leonid Polterovich, Tel Aviv University and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York October 8 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Identity Testing of Tensors, Low Rank Recovery, and Compressed Sensing ✦ Amir Shpilka, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ Parallel Repetition of Two Prover Games: A Survey ✦ Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial October 9 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ On the Conjectures of Nonnegative k-Sum and Hypergraph Matching ✦ Hao Huang, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Hole Probability for Entire Functions Represented by Gaussian Taylor Series ✦ Alon Nishry, Tel Aviv University October 10 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems and Proof Assistant ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics October 11 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Toward a Computational Interpretation of Univalence ✦ Dan Licata, Member, School of Mathematics
October 15 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ A Multi-Prover Interactive Proof for NEXP Sound against Entangled Provers ✦ Tsuyoshi Ito, NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Members Seminar ✦ How to Find Periodic Orbits and Exotic Symplectic Manifold ✦ Mark McLean, Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial October 16 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ On the AND- and ORConjectures: Limits to Efficient Preprocessing ✦ Andrew Drucker, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations October 17 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations October 18 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ On the Setoid Model of Type Theory ✦ Erik Palmgren, University of Stockholm Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ On the Parity of Coefficients of Modular Forms ✦ Joel Bellaiche, Brandeis University Analysis Seminar ✦ Uniqueness and Nondegeneracy of Ground States for Nonlocal Equations ✦ Rupert Frank, Princeton University Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ On the Symplectic Invariance of Log Kodaira Dimension ✦ Mark McLean, Member, School of Mathematics October 22 Members Seminar ✦ Algebraic K-Theory via Binary Complexes ✦ Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Modular Forms Modulo2 ✦ Jean-Pierre Serre, CNRS and Collège de France October 12 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Homological Mirror Symmetry for a Calabi-Yau Hypersurface in Projective Space ✦ Nick Sheridan, Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics
Univalent Foundations Tutorial ✦ Simplicial Set ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics October 23 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ The Strauss Conjecture on Black Holes ✦ Mihai Tohaneanu, Johns Hopkins University
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Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members ✦ Counting GL2(ℤ) Orbits on Binary Quartic Forms and Applications ✦ Arul Shankar, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ Random Band Matrices: Local Regime ✦ Tatyana Shcherbyna, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ The Relative Fukaya Category, Symplectic and Quantum Cohomology ✦ Nick Sheridan, Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics ✦ Internal Languages for Higher Toposes ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics
Knowledge ✦ Noam Zeilberger, Member, School of Mathematics ✦ The Inverse Galois Problem for PSL2( Fp ) ✦ David Zywina, Member, School of Mathematics
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October 24 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ Synthetic Differential Cohomology ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics October 25 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Kan Simplicial Set Model of Type Theory ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Central Values of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions and Period Relations ✦ Michael Harris, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Paris Diderot October 26 Working Group on Univalent Foundations October 29 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Combinatorial Walrasian Equilibrium ✦ Michal Feldman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University Univalent Foundations Tutorial October 30 Working Group on Univalent Foundations
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Analysis Seminar ✦ The Incompressible Euler Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates,With Applications to Analyticity of Fluid Particle Trajectories and to Numerical Simulations ✦ Uriel Frisch, Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
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Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Behavior of Welschinger Invariants under Morse Simplification ✦ Erwan Brugalle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie October 31 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems (continued) ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
November 2 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Hamiltonian S1 Actions with Isolated Fixed Points on 6-Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds ✦ Andrew Fanoe, Columbia University November 5 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Query Complexity of Black-Box Search ✦ Ben Rossman, Tokyo Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ Patching and Local-Global Principles ✦ Julia Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial November 6 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Games, Solution Concepts, and Mechanism Design: A Very Short Introduction ✦ Jing Chen, Member, School of Mathematics November 7 Univalent Foundations Organizational Meeting Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Continuum Percolation and Duality with Equilibrium Hard-Hyperparticle Systems ✦ Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University ✦ Dynamic Programming for Ab-Initio Prediction of Protein Folding Routes ✦ Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ✦ Membranes, Curvature, and the Endoplasmic Reticulum ✦ Greg Huber, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Mathematical Conversations ✦ Duality, Universality, and Random Matrices ✦ Thomas Spencer, Professor, School of Mathematics November 8 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Simplicial Set Model of Univalent Foundations ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics
Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ Duality, Universality, and Random Matrices ✦ Thomas Spencer, Professor, School of Mathematics November 1 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Kan Simplicial Set Model of Type Theory (continued) ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics
Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ The Tate Conjecture for K3 Surfaces over Fields of Odd Characteristic ✦ Keerthi Madapusi, Harvard University November 9 Working Group on Univalent Foundations
Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Behavior of Welschinger Invariants under Morse Simplification ✦ Erwan Brugalle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Analysis Seminar ✦ Three Projection Operators in Several Complex Variables ✦ Elias Stein, Princeton University Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ An Arithmetic Refinement of Homological Mirror Symmetry for the 2-Torus ✦ Yanki Lekili, University of Cambridge November 12 Members Seminar ✦ Proof of a Thirty-Five-YearOld Conjecture for the Entropy of SU(2) Coherent States, and Its Generalization ✦ Elliot Lieb, Princeton University November 13 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ A Noncommutative Analogue of the 2-Wasserstein Metric for Which the Fermionic Fokker-Planck Equation Is Gradient Flow for the Entropy ✦ Eric Carlen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey November 14 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Toward Higher Inductive Types ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ The Prisoner’s Dilemma ✦ Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences November 15 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Simplicial Model of UA ✦ Chris Kapulkin, University of Pittsburg Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Galois Representations for Regular Algebraic Cuspidal Automorphic Forms ✦ Richard Taylor, Professor, School of Mathematics November 16 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Abstract Analogues of Flux as Symplectic Invariants ✦ Paul Seidel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 19 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ A Complete Dichotomy Rises from the Capture of Vanishing Signatures ✦ Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Members Seminar ✦ Univalent Foundations ✦ Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Gromov-Witten Theory and CycleValued Modular Forms ✦ Yefeng Shen, University of Michigan
Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Monodromy and Arithmetic Groups ✦ T. N. Venkataramana, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Analysis Seminar ✦ Magnetic Vortices, NielsenOlesen-Nambu Strings, and Theta Functions ✦ Israel M. Sigal, University of Toronto
December 7 Working Group on Univalent Foundations
Univalent Foundations Tutorial November 20 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ On the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication and Other Tensors ✦ Joseph Landsberg, Texas A&M University November 21 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type System ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics November 26 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Polynomial Identity Testing of ReadOnce Oblivious Algebraic Branching Progress ✦ Michael Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ A Computer-Checked Proof that the Fundamental Group of the Circle Is the Integers ✦ Dan Licata, Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial November 27 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Computational Complexity in Mechanism Design ✦ Jing Chen, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations November 28 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Special Number Theory Seminar Tal ✦ p-adic Hodge Theory ✦ Alexander Beilinson, The University of Chicago
December 3 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Information Complexity and Exact Communication Bounds ✦ Mark Braverman, Princeton University Members Seminar ✦ Quantum Mechanics— A Primer for Mathematicians ✦ Jürg Fröhlich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial December 4 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Delegation for Bounded Space ✦ Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations December 5 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ The Topology of DNA ✦ Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London ✦ Driving Forces in Comeocyte Expansion: A Geometric Perspective ✦ Myfanwy Evans, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Sato-Tate Distributions in Genus 2 ✦ Andrew Sutherland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical Conversations ✦ Checking Mathematical Proofs with a Computer ✦ Assia Mahboubi, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics
November 30 Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ A Reverse Isoperimetric Inequality for J-Holomorphic Curves ✦ Jake Solomon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
December 6 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Simplicial Model of Univalence ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics
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Analysis Seminar ✦ Nonlinear Long-Range Resonant Scattering and Kink Dynamics ✦ Avy Soffer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Open-Closed Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Calabi-Yau 3-Orbifolds ✦ Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Columbia University December 10 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Matching: A New Proof for an Ancient Algorithm ✦ Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ A Tricky Problem on Sums of Two Squares ✦ Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial December 11 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Combinatorial PCPs with Short Proofs ✦ Or Meir, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Special Lecture ✦ Quantum Beauty ✦ Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ✦ Beauty in Mathematics ✦ Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics December 12 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Type Systems ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics Study Special Lecture ✦ Universality in Mean Curvature Flow Neckpinches ✦ Gang Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mathematical Conversations ✦ Derived Methods in Arithmetic Geometry ✦ Bhargav Bhatt, Member, School of Mathematics December 13 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Invariance under Isomorphism and Definability ✦ Per Martin-Löf, Stockholm University; Member, School of Mathematics
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Mathematical Conversations ✦ Eliciting HigherOrder Beliefs under Proper Higher-Order Rationality ✦ Jing Chen, Member, School of Mathematics
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Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Local Global Principles for Galois Cohomology ✦ Julia Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics December 14 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Arnold Conjecture for Clifford Symplectic Pencils ✦ Doris Hein, Member, School of Mathematics December 17 Univalent Foundations Tutorial
January 16 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Simplicial Types ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics
January 24 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Orthogonal Factorization in HoTT ✦ Egbert Rijke, Radboud University Nijmegen
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Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Abelian Varieties with Maximal Galois Action on Their Torsion Points ✦ David Zywina, Member, School of Mathematics
Mathematical Conversations ✦ Duality, Universality, and Random Matrices ✦ Thomas Spencer, Professor, School of Mathematics January 17 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ State of the New Proof Assistant ✦ Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
December 18 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ The SOS (AKA Lassere/ Positivestellensatz/Sum-of-Squares) System ✦ Raghu Meka, Member, School of Mathematics, and Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics
Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Counting Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces ✦ Pierre Le Boudec, Member, School of Mathematics
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January 21 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Clique Number of Random Geometric Graphs in High Dimension ✦ Sebastien Bubeck, Princeton University
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January 25 Working Group on Univalent Foundations January 28 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ New Independent Source Extractors with Exponential Improvement ✦ Xin Li, University of Washington Members Seminar ✦ Toeplitz Matrices and Determinants under the Impetus of the Ising Model ✦ Percy A. Deift, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Univalent Foundations Tutorial
December 19 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Type System TS ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
January 29 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ The Ribe Program ✦ Manor Mendel, The Open University of Israel; von Neumann Fellow, School of Mathematics
Univalent Foundations Tutorial Working Group on Univalent Foundations Special Lecture ✦ Reflection Positivity and Infrared Bounds for Random Loop Models ✦ Daniel Ueltschi, University of Warwick December 20 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Constructing HITs in a Realizability Model ✦ Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Member, School of Mathematics
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January 14 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ On Bilinear Complexity ✦ Pavel Hrubes, University of Washington
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Working Group on Univalent Foundations January 22 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Sparsity Lower Bounds for Dimensionality Reducing Maps ✦ Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Analysis Seminar ✦ Toeplitz Matrices and Determinants under the Impetus of the Ising Model ✦ Percy A. Deift, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Member, School of Mathematics
Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Hamiltonian Evolution Equations—Where They Come From,What They Are Good For ✦ Jürg Fröhlich, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics Analysis Seminar ✦ Sphere Packing Bounds via Spherical Codes ✦ Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research New England and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 15 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ OSNAP: Faster Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms via Sparser Subspace Embeddings ✦ Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
January 23 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Homotopy and Univalence ✦ Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham; Member, School of Mathematics
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Analysis Seminar ✦ Dispersive Estimates for Schrödinger’s Equation with a Time-Dependent Potential ✦ Marius Beceanu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics
Mathematical Conversations ✦ Provable Bounds in Machine Learning ✦ Ankur Moitra, Member, School of Mathematics
January 30 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Weak Infinity Groupoids in HoTT ✦ Guillaume Brunerie, École Normale Supérieure Working Group on Univalent Foundations January 31 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Calculus of Opetopes ✦ Eric Lee Finster, Member, School of Mathematics Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Automorphic Levi-Sobolev Spaces, Boundary-Value Problems, and Self-Adjoint Operators ✦ Paul Garrett, University of Minnesota February 1 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Large Data Dynamics for Nonlinear Dispersive PDEs ✦ Wilhelm Schlag, The University of Chicago Mathematical Conversations ✦ Quantum Theory and Topos Theory ✦ Bas Spitters, Radboud University Nijmegen; Member, School of Mathematics
February 4 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Influences,Traces,Tribes, and Perhaps Also Thresholds ✦ Gil Kalai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University Members Seminar ✦ Quantum Ergodicity on Large Regular Graphs ✦ Nalini Anantharaman, Université Paris-Sud 11; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial February 5 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Ramsey Theory for Metric Spaces ✦ Manor Mendel, The Open University of Israel; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations February 6 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ A Quillen Model Structure in Type Theory ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Visualizing and Exploring Molecular Simulation Data via Protein Energy Landscape Metaphor ✦ Yusu Wang, The Ohio State University Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Linear Algebra over Cell Complexes: Applications to Data, Coding, and Sensor Networks ✦ Justin Curry, University of Pennsylvania Mathematical Conversations ✦ What Is a Higher-Order Object? ✦ Nils A. Baas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Member, School of Mathematics; Member, School of Natural Sciences
Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory ✦ An Introduction to Motives ✦ Joseph Ayoub, Universität Zürich Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Relative Artin Motives and the Reductive BorelSerre Compactification of a Locally Symmetric Variety ✦ Joseph Ayoub, Universität Zürich February 8 Working Group on Univalent Foundations
February 11 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Mathematical Theories of Interaction with Oracles: Active Property Testing and New Models for Learning Boolean Functions ✦ Liu Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Members Seminar ✦ Homological Mirror Symmetry ✦ Nick Sheridan, Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics
February 19 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ The Chasm at Depth 3 ✦ Shubhangi Saraf, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ New Approximations of the Total Variation, and Filters in Image Processing ✦ Haim Brezis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey February 20 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ π2(s 2) in HoTT ✦ Guillaume Brunerie, École Normale Supérieure
Univalent Foundations Tutorial Working Group on Univalent Foundations February 12 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ High Dimensional Expanders and Ramanujan Complexes ✦ Alex Lubotzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Working Group on Univalent Foundations February 13 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The Hopf Fibration via Higher Inductive Types ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics Mathematical Conversations ✦ Kozai-Lidov Oscillations ✦ Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor, School of Natural Sciences February 14 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ On Finite Types That Are Not H-Sets ✦ Sergey Melikhov, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Regularized Periods of Automorphic Forms ✦ Atsushi Ichino, Kyoto University February 15 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Contact Nonsqueezing and Rabinowitz Floer Homology ✦ Peter Albers, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Visitor, School of Mathematics February 18 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Connectedness, Sperner’s Lemma, and Combinatorial Problems ✦ Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo
February 21 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Locally Cartesian Closed Infinity Categories ✦ Joachim Kock, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties and Kuga Families with Ordinary Loci ✦ Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesota February 22 Working Group on Univalent Foundations ✦ The Universe Is Indiscrete ✦ Martin Escardo, University of Birmingham Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Symplectic Cohomology and Loop Homology ✦ Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia University and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York February 25 André Joyal’s Seventieth Birthday ✦ A Type System with Two Kinds of Identity Types ✦ Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics ✦ Connectedness and the Freudenthal Suspension Theorem ✦ Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Polar Codes and Randomness Extraction for Structured Sources ✦ Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University Members Seminar ✦ Collective Phenomena, Collective Motion, and Collective Action in Ecological Systems ✦ Simon Levin, Princeton University André Joyal’s Seventieth Birthday ✦ Joyal Theorems for Homotopical Species ✦ Joachim Kock, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ✦ Rings and Near Rings in 2-Monoidal Categories ✦
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February 7 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Isomorphic Structures of Any Kind Are “Equal” in HoTT: But What Is a Kind of Structure? ✦ Peter Aczel, The University of Manchester; Member, School of Mathematics
Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Toric B-Symplectic and Origami Manifolds ✦ Ana Rita Pires, Cornell University
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Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University ✦ Braid Extended Power Operations in Topology ✦ Terry Bisson, Canisius College February 26 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Derandomizing BPL? ✦ Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations February 27 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Semantics of Higher Inductive Types ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ Local Codes and Symmetry ✦ Klim Efremenko, Member, School of Mathematics February 28 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Formal Abstract Homotopy Theory ✦ Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Presentation on the History of the Institute and the School of Mathematics ✦ Christine Di Bella, Archivist, and Erica Mosner, Archival Assistant, Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Standard and Nonstandard Comparisons of Relative Trace Formulas ✦ Yiannis Sakellaridis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Intermediate Symplectic Capacities ✦ Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University in St. Louis; Member, School of Mathematics March 4 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Quasirandom Hypergraphs ✦ Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago Members Seminar ✦ Hodge and Chern Numbers of Algebraic Varieties Sixty Years after Hirzebruch’s Riemann-Roch Theorem ✦ Dieter Kotschick, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial
March 5 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Derandomization of Probabilistic Logspace (the Nisan Variations) ✦ Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics
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March 13 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ EilenbergMac Lane Spaces in HoTT ✦ Dan Licata, Member, School of Mathematics
March 6 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory ✦ Eric Lee Finster, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Loops and Self Reference in Language and Life ✦ Tsvi Tlusty, Member, School of Natural Sciences ✦ Locality and Unitarity from Positivity: Beyond the Positive Grassmannian ✦ Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences ✦ The Optimality of the Interleaving Distance on Multidimensional Persistence Modules ✦ Michael Lesnick, Member, School of Mathematics March 7 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Setoids, E-Categories, and Exact Completions ✦ Richard Garner, Queen Mary, University of London Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Goren-Oort Stratification of Hilbert Modular Varieties Mod P and Tate Conjecture ✦ Liang Xiao, The University of Chicago March 8 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Lagrangian Caps in High-Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds ✦ Emmy Murphy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 11 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Intractability in Algorithmic Game Theory ✦ Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Members Seminar ✦ Random Matrices, Dimensionality Reduction, and Faster Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms ✦ Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial March 12 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Sensitivity versus Block Sensitivity, I ✦ Hao Huang, Member, School of Mathematics
Marston Morse Lectures ✦ Unexpected Applications of Polynomials in Combinatorics ✦ Lawrence Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Working Group on Univalent Foundations Marston Morse Lectures ✦ What Is Special about Polynomials? (Perspectives from Coding Theory and Differential Geometry) ✦ Lawrence Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 14 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Homotopy Colimits and a Descent Theorem ✦ Egbert Rijke, Radboud University Nijmegen Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ An Analogue of the Ichino-Ikeda Conjecture for Whittaker Coefficients of the Metaplectic Group ✦ Erez Lapid, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science March 15 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Resonance for Loop Homology on Spheres ✦ Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics Mathematical Conversations ✦ In Computers We Trust? ✦ Tom Hales, University of Pittsburgh March 18 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Constant Rate PCPs for CircuitSAT with Sublinear Query Complexity ✦ Eli Ben-Sasson, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics ✦ Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana Univalent Foundations Tutorial March 19 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Sensitivity versus Block Sensitivity, II ✦ Hao Huang, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations
Analysis Seminar ✦ Dynamics of Gibbs Measure Evolution for the Radial Nonlinear Schrödinger and Wave Equations on the Ball ✦ Aynur Bulut, Member, School of Mathematics March 20 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Gluing in Homotopy Type Theory ✦ Michael Shulman, Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ A Trip to the Moon ✦ Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics March 21 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ A Proof Assistant Prototype Based on Algebraic Effects and Handlers ✦ Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana March 22 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Substructural Type Theory ✦ Noam Zeilberger, IMDEA Software Institute; Member, School of Mathematics Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ The Hypoelliptic Laplacian ✦ JeanMichel Bismut, Université Paris-Sud 11 March 25 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ New Locally Decodable Codes from Lifting ✦ Madhu Sudan, Microsoft Research Members Seminar ✦ Rigidity of Actions on CAT(0) Cube Complexes ✦ Alessandra Iozzi, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial ✦ Isomorphism of Types: a Simple(-Typed) Viewpoint ✦ Sergei Soloviev, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Partial Regularity of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations in High Dimensions ✦ Hongjie Dong, Brown University March 27 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ The James Construction and π4(s3) ✦ Guillaume Brunerie, École Normale Supérieure
March 28 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Natural Models of Type Theory ✦ Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Non-Archimedean Approximations by Special Points ✦ Philipp Habegger, GoetheUniversität Frankfurt am Main; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics March 29 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Dimers and Integrability ✦ Richard Kenyon, Brown University Mathematical Conversations ✦ Constructing Invariants in Symplectic Geometry ✦ Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University in St. Louis; Member, School of Mathematics April 1 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Device Independence: A New Paradigm for Randomness Manipulation? ✦ Thomas Vidick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Members Seminar ✦ Conformal Dynamics in Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry: Around a Question of A. Lichnerowicz ✦ Charles Frances, Université Paris-Sud 11; Member, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial April 2 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ An Arithmetic Analogue of Fox’s Improved Triangle Removal Lemma ✦ Sushant Sachdeva, Princeton University Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Resonances for Normally Hyperbolic Trapped Sets ✦ Semyon Dyatlov, University of California, Berkeley
April 3 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ On the Category of HSets ✦ Bas Spitters, Radboud University Nijmegen; Member, School of Mathematics Working Group on Univalent Foundations Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems ✦ Properties of Cellular Microstructures: Polycrystals, Foams, and Their Idealizations ✦ David Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania ✦ Evolutionary Dynamics on Correlated Fitness Landscapes ✦ Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania ✦ Toward a Covariant Theory of Coarsening via Emergent Symmetries ✦ Stephen Watson, University of Glasgow April 4 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ HoTT Is a Polyvalent Foundation of Mathematics ✦ André Joyal, Université du Québec à Montréal Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ A Converse to a Theorem of Gross-ZaqierKolyvagin ✦ Christopher Skinner, Princeton University; Visitor, School of Mathematics April 5 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Manifolds with G2 Holonomy and Contact Structures ✦ Sema Salur, University of Rochester and Princeton University April 8 Members Seminar ✦ Small Height and Infinite Non-Abelian Extensions ✦ Philipp Habegger, University of Frankfurt; von Neumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics Univalent Foundations Tutorial April 9 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ What Is Geometric Entropy, and Does It Really Increase? ✦ Jozsef Beck, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Working Group on Univalent Foundations Analysis Seminar ✦ Calibrations of Degree Two and Regularity Issues ✦ Costante Bellettini, Princeton University; Veblen Research Instructorship, School of Mathematics April 10 Univalent Foundations Seminar ✦ Directed Type Theory ✦ Michael A. Warren, Member, School of Mathematics
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March 26 Special Seminar Lecture ✦ The Hypoelliptic Laplacian: An Introduction ✦ Jean-Michel Bismut, Université Paris-Sud 11
Special Lectures in Analysis/Number Theory ✦ Norm Convergence of Nonconventional Ergodic Averages ✦ Miguel Walsh, Universidad de Buenos Aires ✦ A Zero-Density Approach to Smooth Numbers ✦ Adam Harper, Université de Montréal ✦ Mean Values of LFunctions for the Hyperelliptic Ensemble ✦ Julio Andrade, Brown University ✦ Statistics of the Zeros of the Zeta Function: Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Phenomena ✦ Brad Rodgers, University of California, Los Angeles
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Special Number Theory Seminar ✦ Solvability in Polynomials of Pell Equations in a Pencil and a Conjecture of Pink ✦ Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa April 11 Univalent Foundations Final Seminar ✦ Homotopy Theory in Type Theory ✦ “The Homotopy Group”: Guillaume Brunerie, École Normale Supérieure; Dan Licata, Member, School of Mathematics; and Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Member, School of Mathematics Analysis Seminar ✦ Hamiltonian Instability Driven by Recurrent Dynamics ✦ Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Symmetric Power Functoriality for GL(2) ✦ Jack Thorne, Harvard University April 12 Working Group on Univalent Foundations Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Construction of the Kuranishi Structure on the Moduli Space of Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves ✦ Kenji Fukaya, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York Working Group on Univalent Foundations Mathematical Conversations ✦ Zeros of Zeta Functions and the Riemann Hypothesis ✦ Anders Södergren, Member, School of Mathematics
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April 15 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Analytical Approach to Parallel Repetition ✦ Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute of Science and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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April 18 Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Most Hyperelliptic Curves over Q Have No Rational Points ✦ Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University April 19 Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar ✦ Examples of Nearly Integrable Systems with Asymptotically Dense Projected Orbits ✦ Jean-Pierre Marco, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
April 22 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials ✦ Daniel Kane, Stanford University
May 10 Special Mathematical Physics Seminar ✦ Planar Ising Model: Discrete and Continuous Structures ✦ Clement Hongler, Columbia University
April 23 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Uncertainty Principle ✦ Klim Efremenko, Member, School of Mathematics
Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Nondeterministic Direct Product Reductions and the Success Probability of SAT Solvers ✦ Andrew Drucker, Member, School of Mathematics
Analysis Seminar ✦ Conformal Invariants from Nodal Sets ✦ Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University
Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Association Schemes, Noncommutative Polynomials and Lasserre Lower Bounds for Planted Clique ✦ Raghu Meka, Visitor, School of Mathematics
April 25 Special Lecture ✦ Integrable Stochastic Particle Systems and Macdonald Processes ✦ Alexei Borodin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Harmonic Maass Forms of Weight One ✦ William Duke, University of California, Los Angeles April 26 Analysis Seminar ✦ New Limiting Theorems for the Mobius Function ✦ Yakov Sinai, Princeton University April 29 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Cryptography and Preventing Collusion in Second Price (Vickery) Auctions ✦ Michael Rabin, Harvard University and Columbia University April 30 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II ✦ Combinatorial Walrasian Equilibrium ✦ Michal Feldman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Analysis Seminar ✦ A Non-Isotropic Mechanism for the Formation of Trapped Surfaces ✦ Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University May 2 Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar ✦ Moduli of Representations and Pseudorepresentations ✦ Carl Wang Erickson, Harvard University May 6 Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I ✦ Tight Bounds for Set Disjointness in the Message-Passing Model ✦ Rotem Oshman, University of Toronto
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Program for Women and Mathematics he twentieth annual Program for Women and Mathematics was held at the Institute for Advanced Study May 13–24, 2013. Program activities were sponsored by the Institute and Princeton University and generously supported by the National Science Foundation.
Yue Cai of the University of Kentucky and Olya Mandelshtam of the University of California, Berkeley, acted as teaching assistants for combinatorics, and Katherine Edwards of Princeton University and Anita Liebenau of Freie Universität Berlin served as graph theory teaching assistants.
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Research seminars were as follows: Deborah Chun, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, “What is a Matroid?”; Martha Yip, University of Pennsylvania, “Walking in Alcoves and Formulas for Macdonald Polynomials”; Kitty Meeks, Queen Mary, University of London, “Flood-filling Games on Graphs”; Radmila
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The program’s goal is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to continue their math education. Research mathematicians give talks and seminars, which focus on a particular topic. “Combinatorics and Graph Theory 2013” was the title of this year’s program. Twenty-one undergraduates, thirty-two graduate students, and eleven postdoctoral mathematicians attended the program. Program organizers were Dusa McDuff of Barnard College, Christine Taylor of the Institute and Princeton University, Sun-Yung Alice Chang of Princeton University, and Antonella Grassi of the University of Pennsylvania. Four lectures on polytopes were given by Margaret Readdy of the University of Kentucky, and four lectures in a series titled “Topics in Enumerative Combinatorics” were given by Lauren Williams of the University of California, Berkeley. Maria Chudnovsky of Columbia University gave four lectures on graph structure, and Penny Haxell of the University of Waterloo gave four lectures on basic graph theory.
Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania, “Categorifications of the Chromatic Polynomials”; Viola Mészáros, University of Szeged, “Long Alternating Paths”; Briana Foster-Greenwood, Idaho State University, “Reflection Length and Codimension Posets for Complex Reflection Groups”; Amanda Redlich, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, “Gluing Graphs, Ungluing Graphs, and First-Order Logic with Parity”; Michele Lastrina, Dickinson College, “Sum List Coloring Graphs”; and Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, “Solving Nonlinear PDEs Using Combinatorial Structures.” The first of five Women-in-Science seminars included introductions. Three of the Women-in-Science seminars were panel discussions, “Work-Life Balance in a Mathematics Career”; “Becoming an Academic Mathematician”; and “Succeeding in Graduate School.” The fifth seminar, “Bringing Diversity to Mathematics,” was given by Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr College. Panel participants were: Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Patricia Cahn, University of Pennsylvania; Connie Chen, Wandl, Inc.; Cynthia Curtis, The College of New Jersey; Susan Durst, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania; Haydee Herrera, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York; Amand Redlich, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Radmila Sazdanovic, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Christina Sormani, Lehman College, City University of New York; Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College; Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Martha Yip, University of Pennsylvania. Colloquia were given by Fan Chung of the University of California, San Diego, whose session was titled “Can You Hear the Shape of a Network? New Directions in Spectral Graph Theory”; Michelle Wachs of the University of Miami, whose session was titled “Eulerian Polynomials, Chromatic Quasi-Symmetric Functions, and Hessenberg Varieties”; and Jennifer Chayes of Microsoft, whose session was titled “Age of Networks.” Two special lectures were held. Ruixiang Zhang of Princeton University gave a lecture on “Producing Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs Using the 2-Lifting Method.” Richard Ehrenborg of the University of Kentucky and undergraduate students from Princeton University Carolyn Chen, Max Kaplan, Bing Lin, and Daniel Toro, talked about “Mathematical Magic.” During two informal dinners there was a “chat” with Fan Chung of the University of California, San Diego, and an “Introduction to the National Science Foundation and Funding Opportunities” by NSF combinatorics program director Qing Xiang. P R O G R A M F O R WO M E N A N D M AT H E M AT I C S
On Monday, May 20, participants visited the campus of Princeton University for the day to hear talks by Stefan van Zwam, “Connecticity in Graphs and Matroids”; Zeev Dvir “Arrangements of Points with Many Collinear
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Triples”; Irene Lo, “Excluding a Near-clique and a Near-Anticlique”; and Jing Chen, an Institute Member, “Optimal Waiting Times and Assignments in Healthcare Provision.” The afternoon panel discussion focused on “Career Paths for Women in Mathematics.” Members of the panel were Alexandra Fradkin, Center for Communications Research; Lisa Goldberg, Coleman Fung Risk Management Research Center; Allyn Jackson, American Mathematical Society; and Tal Rabin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Participants attending the program were from the following universities and colleges: Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna , Poland; Auburn University; Bryn Mawr College; California State University; Carnegie Mellon University; City College of New York; Concordia University; Dartmouth College; Dickinson College; Emory University; Franciscan University of Steubenville; Freie Universität Berlin; Harvard University; Idaho State University; Iowa State University; Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier; Marshall University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michigan State University; New York University; North Carolina State University; Northeastern University; Pomona College; Princeton University; Queen Mary, University of London; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Simon Fraser University; Stanford University; Stony Brook University; Sweet Briar College; The College of New Jersey; Trinity University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Kentucky; University of Massachusetts; University of Michigan; University of Minnesota; University of Nebraska; University of Pennsylvania; University of Szeged; University of Warwick; University of Waterloo; University of Wisconsin– Madison;Vanderbilt University; Wesleyan University; West Virginia University of Technology; Wilfrid Laurier University; and York University.
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At the conclusion of the program activities, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding the material and level of the lectures, the structure and organization of the program, and the quality of the facilities. Everyone expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to take part in the program and the outstanding talks. Some participant comments follow: “This program has been an incredible opportunity to grow for me; not only as a mathematician, but also as a student and woman overall”; “This was a wonderful experience! It’s rare that I encounter women who are technical minded like me, who enjoy math riddles and problem sets. This makes me feel less like I’m strange, or at least, if I am weird, there are other women who are weird like me, and I like them”; “I loved having such a large group of women studying math together. The support network that we created, and the friendships we created are incredibly valuable. The seminars on women in science were very helpful. Throughout the series, I learned important lessons about math, graduate school, working in academia, working in industry, and succeeding in life. Together, these sessions have changed my perspective on many things and have encouraged my goals for the future.”
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Professor Juan Maldacena (at chalkboard) with JĂźrg FrĂśhlich (center), Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Members
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n the last year, Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed has continued his involvement in physics beyond the Standard Model and more formal properties of gauge theory scattering amplitudes.
Along the same lines, with some other collaborators, Arkani-Hamed further elaborated on the minimal picture of split SUSY and described a number of new implications of these ideas. This research sharpened the underlying theoretical structure and gave a more accurate prediction for the Higgs mass as well as gauge coupling unification (which is mildly improved over conventional supersymmetric theories). New smoking guns for heavy scalars and Higgsinos at the LHC were explored and a novel possibility was pointed out for explaining the
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The biggest news in particle physics over the last year was the discovery of a particle with properties of the Higgs boson. In the early data, there was a hint of an enhancement in the diphoton decay channel. While it was most likely that this was not pointing to new physics, it was an interesting exercise to take it seriously and understand its new physics ramifications. With his postdocs, Arkani-Hamed realized that the excess was categorically impossible to explain within a wide class of “unnatural” theories, where only one scalar (the Higgs) is fine-tuned to be light, and the only new particles beyond the Standard Model are fermions. This includes a set of ideas for new physics revolving around “split supersymmetry (SUSY)” that Arkani-Hamed has been exploring on and off for almost a decade, which in their minimal version predicted a Higgs mass between 120–135 GeV, and have therefore passed a (mild) first test with the discovery of the Higgs-like boson at 125 GeV. Additional fermions are perfectly possible in this picture, but in order to get a big diphoton enhancement, Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators showed that the needed Yukawa couplings to the Higgs would be so large as to trigger disastrous vacuum instability right around the TeV scale. They concluded that if the diphoton excess remained, these “unnatural” models would be decisively ruled out and there would be a huge boost for “natural” new physics. Alternately, theories like split SUSY, and all of its variants, unambiguously predicted that the diphoton enhancement should disappear. This seems to be what is happening, so these theories continue to be very viable (and, in Arkani-Hamed’s view, a very plausible picture for what is happening at the TeV scale).
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fermion mass hierarchy following from radiative corrections beneath the SUSY breaking scale with interesting implications for quark and lepton flavor-violation signals.
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By the end of 2012, together with his collaborators in physics and mathematics, Arkani-Hamed completed a nearly twoyear-long effort directly connecting scattering amplitudes in gauge theories to the remarkable mathematical structure known as the “positive Grassmannian.” Some of this work has been described in previous reports, but in the interim, they extended the ideas beyond maximally supersymmetric theories to theories with less supersymmetry and lower dimensions, at least in the study of the basic building blocks known as “on-shell diagrams,” which help represent amplitudes in a way that makes no reference to the idea of “virtual particles.”
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Their long paper can be thought of as a culmination of a decade of research by many workers, which focused on more deeply understanding the singularity structure of amplitudes and using these to reconstruct the amplitude itself. This picture exposes all the hidden symmetries of the amplitudes and establishes connections between the amplitude building blocks and some beautiful algebraic geometry. Arkani-Hamed’s main motivation for jumping into this business five years ago was to find some totally new formulation of the physics based on new principles, where the symmetries and simplicity of the amplitudes are manifest, while locality and unitarity are seen as emergent phenomena.
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Professor Arkani-Hamed further elaborated on the minimal picture of split supersymmetry and described a number of new implications of these ideas. This research sharpened the underlying theoretical structure and gave a more accurate prediction for the Higgs mass as well as gauge coupling unification.
At long last, Arkani-Hamed and one of his students discovered how to do this. The picture started emerging last fall, but now they understand the whole object very well and have been intensively studying it through the past winter and spring. They started with two extremely simple geometrical ideas: a triangle and a convex polygon. The triangle generalizes to the positive Grassmannain, which is already well understood. But the generalization of the polygon into the Grassmannian G(k,k+m) turns out to be an object that is totally new to mathematicians, generalizing the notion of “positivity” to a marriage of both “internal” Grassmannian and “external” kinematical variables. If one wishes to consistently ignore particle labels, one finds it is only possible to do canonically if pairs of particles are ignored together, and this leads to m=4 as the minimal case, where we consider in addition to the k plane in k+4 dimensions, L lines in the 4 dimensional complement of the k plane. We call this general object “the Amplituhedron A n,k,L.” Amazingly, all the amplitudes of N=4 SYM, to all loop orders, can be thought of as an appropriate “volume” of the Amplituhedron. Tree amplitudes are literally the analog of the area of the polygon, which generalizes to the volume of A n,k,L=0 . Quantum corrections are nothing but “hiding” particles, and L loop amplitudes are volumes of A n,k,L. In fact, the problem of computing the integrand of the amplitude is reduced simply to triangulating the Amplituhedron. At tree level, the known BCFW recursion relations give one nice set of triangulations. At loop level, their previous all-loop generalization of BCFW also provides a triangulation, but it is clear there are much better ones. They believe that finding an explicit formula for the integrand of amplitudes to all loop orders is now within sight. Already,
using the new formulation, they have computed several infinite classes of cuts of amplitudes to all loop orders, finding results that are impossible to obtain in any other way. Thus, as Arkani-Hamed hoped five years ago, they have finally found a new formulation of this quantum field theory with no reference to any of the usual physical concepts—no Lagrangians or path integrals or gauge redundancies, which they have eschewed for some time now, but also not even a reference to words like “factorization,” “on-shell diagrams,” or “recursion relations.” They have instead found a new invariant question that the amplitude answers. And most surprisingly to Arkani-Hamed, they have explicitly seen how both locality and unitarity emerge from this structure, springing in unison from a single, more primitive notion of positivity.
Although Professor Peter Goddard has been continuing to take some interest in the governance of institutes for advanced study through service on the boards of institutes in Jerusalem, São Paolo, and Vancouver, he has been able to devote most of his time to theoretical physics. He has been studying the relationship between supersymmetric gauge theory and the string theory in twistor space introduced by Nathan Berkovits, continuing work done in collaboration with Louise Dolan over the last few years. The twistor string theory is believed to be related to N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory coupled to conformal supergravity. Dolan and Goddard’s work aimed to provide explicit calculations of tree and one-loop scattering amplitudes in the twistor string theory and compare them with the gauge theory results. They were able to evaluate the twistor string theory amplitudes for a particular class of amplitudes (split-helicity amplitudes) explicitly, showing that they yielded the same expressions previously obtained in gauge theory; subsequently, they extended these techniques to show that this equivalence held for all twistor string tree amplitudes by showing they satisfied recursion relations characterizing the gauge theory tree amplitudes.
During the 2012–13 academic year, Professor Stanislas Leibler continued his work on various theoretical aspects connected to the experiments performed by his collaborators at the Laboratory of Living Matter at the Rockefeller University. This work concerned, in particular, the dynamics of replicated, closed microbial ecosystems and their emergent collective behavior. The behavior of microbes was also the subject of another study, which revealed and quantitatively analyzed new phenomena caused by the interplay between environment and heredity.
From left, Director Robbert Dijkgraaf, Professor Edward Witten, and Kevin Costello (Member in the School of Mathematics, 2007–08) of Northwestern University who gave a High Energy Theory Seminar on Yangians and supersymmetric gauge theory
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Recently, Dolan and Goddard have been considering further the one-loop contribution to the twistor string gluon amplitude, which they previously calculated in detail in the maximally helicity violating case, with a view to determining its relation to gauge theory and conformal supergravity. One objective is to determine whether there are any constraints on the gauge group, because it has long been thought that N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory coupled to conformal supergravity must have a four-dimensional gauge group.
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In collaboration with Olivier Rivoire, a regular visitor at IAS, Leibler also worked on a general theoretical model for the generation and transmission of variations in evolution. During the 2012–13 academic year, Professor Juan Maldacena mostly researched aspects of quantum entanglement in quantum field theories and gravity. In a paper, he and graduate student Guilherme Pimentel computed the entanglement entropy of a quantum field in de Sitter space. They considered a fixed region in commoving coordinates. The interesting part of the entanglement is due to the particles created by the expansion of the universe. Separately, with Member Thomas Hartman, Maldacena considered entanglement entropy of quantum field theories with gravity duals. They studied the evolution of the entanglement entropy for some special states. These states were such that they corresponded to black holes in the bulk. If the initial state is such that the entanglement is essentially local at the scale of the temperature, then time evolution spreads it linearly in time. This linear growth comes from the growth of a surface in the interior of the black hole. This suggests that the black hole interior grows as the pattern of entanglement becomes more complex.
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Maldacena, with Leonard Susskind, presented an interpretation of the wormhole geometry of eternal black holes in terms of quantum entanglement. The wormhole geometry connects two spatially separated regions via the Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge. They interpreted this geometry as an EPR pair of black holes and called this connection ER=EPR. They discussed the implications of this to modern versions of the black hole information paradox.
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Working with graduate student Aitor Lewkowycz, Maldacena presented a proof of the Ryu-Takayanagi formula for the entanglement entropy for theories with a gravity dual. This formula says that the entanglement entropy is computed by the area of a minimal area surface in the bulk of the spacetime.
Professor Scott Tremaine, whose research explored multiplanet systems, dark matter, and thermodynamics of stellar disks orbiting black holes, led a Mathematical Conversation on Kozai-Lidov oscillations.
Finally, with Member Ofer Aharony, Simone Giombi, Guy Gur-Ari, and Ran Yacoby, Maldacena analyzed the computation of the thermal entropy in large N Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter. The results were in precise agreement with a proposed bosonizaton duality. Member Ofer Aharony, Yuji Tachikawa, and Professor Nathan Seiberg explored new subtleties in 4d gauge theory associated with the choice of line operators. Different consistent choices of these operators correspond to distinct physical theories, with the same correlation functions of local operators in R4. In some cases, these choices are permuted by shifting the θ-angle by 2π. In other cases, they are labeled by new discrete θ-like parameters. Using this understanding, they gained new insight into the dynamics of four-dimensional gauge theories and their phases. The existence of these distinct theories clarified a number of issues in electric/magnetic dualities of supersymmetric
Kenneth Intriligator and Seiberg considered various aspects of the dynamics of 3d N=2 ChernSimons gauge theories and their possible phases. Depending on the parameters, there can be noncompact Higgs or Coulomb branches, compact Higgs or Coulomb branches, and isolated vacua. They computed the Witten index of the theories and showed that it does not change when the system undergoes a phase transition. They studied monopole operators and solitons in these theories and clarified subtleties in the soliton collective coordinate quantization. They demonstrated that solitons are compatible with a mirror symmetry exchange of Higgs and Coulomb branches, with BPS solitons on one branch related to the modulus of the other. Among other results, they derived Aharony duality from Giveon-Kutasov duality. Seiberg, Aharony, and Members Shlomo S. Razamat and Brian Willett clarified the origin of dualities in 3d N=2 supersymmetric theories. These arise from similar dualities in 4d N=1 theories. They reproduced all known 3d dualities and found many new ones. They discussed in detail the case of 3d SU(Nc) supersymmetric QCD theories, showing how to derive new duals for these theories from the 4d duality.
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has found thousands of extrasolar planets by monitoring stars for periodic dips in brightness as the planets pass in front of the star. Among these are many multiplanet systems, which exhibit a curious feature in the distribution of orbital periods: near a resonance such as the 3:2 resonance (where the inner planet orbits the star three times while the outer planet orbits twice), planet pairs are preferentially found just outside the nominal resonance (period ratios slightly bigger than 1.5), while there is a deficit of pairs just inside. With School visitor Renu Malhotra (University of Arizona) and graduate student Cristobal Petrovich (Princeton University), Richard Black Professor Scott Tremaine has explored an extremely simple dynamical model that may explain this effect: grow a single massive planet slowly on a fixed orbit and follow the behavior of a swarm of planets of negligible mass near the resonance with the massive planet. They found that the distribution of orbital periods in the swarm develops a characteristic asymmetric peak-trough structure around the resonance, qualitatively similar to the one observed in the Kepler sample. The result suggests that the structures seen in the Kepler planet sample are
Patrick Geary (far left), a Professor in the School of Historical Studies who is using genetic data to try to revolutionalize understanding of migration history, organized an informal seminar with Faculty and Members from the Simons Center for Systems Biology and the School of Historical Studies.
Professor Maldacena, with Leonard Susskind, presented an interpretation of the wormhole geometry of eternal black holes in terms of quantum entanglement. The wormhole geometry connects two spatially separated regions via the Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge. They interpreted this geometry as an EPR pair of black holes and called this connection ER=EPR. They discussed the implications of this to modern versions of the black hole information paradox.
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Aharony, Razamat, Willett, and Seiberg also extended their earlier work on the relation of 4d and 3d dualities to orthogonal gauge groups. The distinction between different SO(N) gauge theories in 4d plays an important role in this relation. They showed that the 4d duality leads to a 3d duality between an SO(Nc) gauge theory with Nf flavors and an SO(Nf –N+2) theory with Nf flavors and extra singlets, and they verified the consistency of this 3d duality by various methods, including index computations.
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likely to be generic features of a wide range of planet-formation histories.
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So far the evidence for vast quantities of dark matter in the universe relies mostly on cosmological models and dynamical arguments. A massive experimental effort is underway to detect dark-matter particles directly, as they pass through laboratory detectors. The expected rate of detections depends on the local density of dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. Thus there was considerable interest last year when a paper from Chilean astronomers claimed to derive a local density of dark matter, from analysis of the kinematics of nearby stars, that was an order of magnitude below standard expectations and consistent with zero. Tremaine and Member Jo Bovy showed that this claim was based on a flawed assumption about the Milky Way rotation. After fixing this error, they found a halo density that is consistent with standard estimates of this quantity. This is the most robust direct measurement of the local dark-matter density to date. The methods of classical statistical mechanics developed by James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and others have been extremely successful in describing the properties of fluids, gases, and other systems. This success relies on the short-range nature of the forces between molecules. Determining the equilibrium properties of systems of particles interacting via long-range forces is much more difficult, in part because the thermodynamics of such systems exhibit exotic phenomena such as negative specific heat, nonextensive entropy, etc. Understanding nonextensive thermodynamics is particularly relevant to stellar systems, in which the long-range force is gravity; however, until now, most treatments have examined artificial systems with, for example, softened gravity, confining walls, etc. With School visitor Jihad Touma (American University of Beirut), Tremaine is investigating the thermodynamics of stellar disks orbiting black holes. After orbit-averaging, these systems strongly resemble the two-dimension vortex gas investigated by Lars Onsager and others. They show a generic phase transition to nonaxisymmetry that is reproduced in N-body experiments and may be relevant for observations of galaxy centers. During the academic year 2012–13, Charles Simonyi Professor Edward Witten continued his work on superstring perturbation theory. He completed a detailed paper describing the algorithm to compute superstring scattering amplitudes by integration over the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces, as well as two sets of notes on background material. Witten also wrote an expository paper aimed at explaining how the main ideas work out in a concrete example that is known to be illuminating. With Ron Donagi, he showed that the moduli space of super Riemann surfaces is not projected, a foundational result that shows that simplifications that occur in low orders of perturbation theory do not generalize to higher orders—and thus that the more complex algorithm described in Witten’s other papers is actually necessary. He is currently studying several other facets of superstring perturbation theory, including the generalization of the Feynman iε procedure from ordinary quantum field
theory. One possible goal is to understand the analytic continuation of scattering amplitudes and their Regge behavior. In another area entirely, Witten has continued his work with a student, Victor Mikhaylov, on a problem that involves branes, supergroups, and electric-magnetic duality. In 2012–13, Professor Matias Zaldarriaga worked on a variety of topics in cosmology ranging from early universe cosmology to the study of large-scale structure in the distribution of matter in the present universe. With Daniel Green (Member 2009–12) and other collaborators, he analyzed the observational signatures of inflationary models that are coupled to strongly interacting field theories, a basic class of multifield models also motivated by their role in providing dynamically small scales. The signatures uncovered provide a precision test for such sectors when coupled to the inflation via irrelevant operators suppressed by a high mass scale, up to a thousand times higher than the inflationary Hubble scale.
Professor Emeritus Stephen L. Adler spent several months last summer finishing the camera-ready copy for his book The Guide to PAMIR: Theory and Use of Parameterized Adaptive Multidimensional Integration Routines, which has now been published by World Scientific. The PAMIR programs are available online and are free for university research use at Pamir-integrate.com. With Angelo Bassi and Sandro Donadi of the University of Trieste, Adler returned to the unfinished business of understanding why a calculation of noise-induced radiation by electrons, carried out by Bassi and Detlef Duerr, gave a factor of two larger answer than that found earlier by Qijia Fu and by Adler and Fethi Ramazanoglu, who used standard “Golden Rule” -type methods. Adler, Bassi, and Donadi showed that when Bassi and Duerr’s
Professor Matias Zaldarriaga, who worked on a variety of topics in cosmology ranging from early universe cosmology to the study of large-scale structure in the distribution of matter in the present universe, gave a public lecture on the latest news from the cosmos (video available at http://video.ias.edu/zaldarriaga-lecture-5-13).
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Together with Princeton postdoctoral fellow Svetlin Tassev, he presented an N-body method for solving for large-scale structure (LSS) in a frame that is comoving with observers following trajectories calculated in Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT). The new method can lead to a significant speed up without compromising the necessary accuracy in some applications. Together with Princeton postdoctoral fellow Enrico Pajer, he continued to study the socalled “effective theory of large-scale structure.” For example, they showed explicitly that the terms induced by integrating out short scales, neglected in standard calculations, have exactly the right scale dependence to cancel all UV-divergences that appear at one loop for some cosmologies.
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With Members Cora Dvorkin and Kfir Blum, he showed that dark matter annihilation around the time of recombination can lead to growing ionization fraction perturbations, which track the linear collapse of matter over-densities. These effects amplify small-scale cosmological perturbations to the free electron density by a significant factor compared to the usual acoustic oscillations and contribute to the CMB bispectrum from recombination.
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calculation is repeated with the final electron in a wave packet and the noise is confined to a bounded region, the extra term found by Bassi and Duerr vanishes in the limit of continuum state normalization.
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Adler is now returning to the “trace dynamics” program for setting up a prequantum theory, which was the subject of his 2004 Cambridge University Press book Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon. In a short paper, Adler elaborated on the brief suggestion made in his book that the doubling of quantum mechanical sectors predicted by trace dynamics may be the origin of the dark matter that makes up around a quarter of the closure density of the universe. In this interpretation, the dark matter sector is a “shadow universe” characterized by the opposite sign of the imaginary unit i from that in our sector. In a longer paper just completed, Adler addresses the issue of incorporating gravity into trace dynamics, and shows that to do this, gravity must take the form of a classical rather than a matrix-valued field. Using three space general coordinate invariance and Weyl scaling arguments, Adler derives the general form of the gravitational effective action induced by the ensemble of prequantum fields. It has a very interesting “chameleonlike” form: on the Robertson-Walker cosmological metric, it has exactly the form of a cosmological term, and so could explain the mysterious “dark energy” that is the major component of the closure density of the universe. But in other contexts, such as in a spherically symmetric black hole metric, it has a form very different from a cosmological term and may have significant, unexpected consequences. Adler plans to continue work on this and other aspects of the trace dynamics program.
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Piero Madau of the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave an astrophysics seminar on connecting the dark and light side of galaxy formation.
Professor Emeritus Freeman J. Dyson reported last year a piece of research on the prisoner’s dilemma, a game-theoretical model that some mathematical biologists consider relevant to the evolution of cooperation. The work was done with William Press, who discovered a new strategy for the Prisoner’s Dilemma that he called the “extortion strategy.” One of the experts in this subject remarked, “Press and Dyson have shown that cleverness and unfairness triumph after all.” Now Dyson is happy to report that their findings have been reversed in a paper with the title “From Extortion to Generosity,” published by Alexander Stewart and Joshua Plotkin from the University of Pennsylvania. Stewart and Plotkin turned the extortion strategy upside-down. The players are called Alice and Bob. In the extortion strategy, Alice unilaterally imposes an unfair division of rewards so that Bob always receives less than she does. In the strategy that Stewart and Plotkin call “generous,” Alice unilaterally imposes a division of rewards with Bob receiving more than she does. As a result of this generosity, Bob is gently guided into a strategy of cooperation that is evolutionarily stable. Stewart and Plotkin demonstrate a conclusion that happily confirms our wishful thinking, that in a population of creatures driven by selfinterest, generosity is the key to cooperation. During the 2012–13 academic year, Professor Emeritus Peter Goldreich, in collaboration with Hilke Schlichting, a Hubble Fellow at the California
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Institute of Technology, developed a new model for resonances between pairs of secondary bodies orbiting a dominant central mass. The model explains the surprisingly small number of near commensurate orbits in multiplanet systems. Moreover, it accounts for the deficit of planet pairs at exact resonance and for the corresponding excess of pairs with slightly greater separation. It also provides a plausible description for the episodic heating of tidally flexed satellites. Potential applications include understanding volcanoes on Io, cracks on Europa, and geysers on Enceladus. The common link among these disparate systems is the demonstration that eccentricity damping can drive an instability of the amplitude of libration about exact resonance. Damping promotes instability because the effective potential is maximal at exact resonance. The instability manifests itself in systems for which eccentricity damping occurs more rapidly than semimajor axis migration. During the 2012–13 academic year, Professor Emeritus Arnold J. Levine’s research focused on the influence of external evolutionary pressure on genome organization and cancer and on using new topological methods to study the shape of genomic data. A project with Member Benjamin Greenbaum and former Members Rémi Monasson and Simona Cocco is building a theoretical model using the degree to which a genome subject to particular constraints has its entropy reduced to infer the strength of an external pressure and then comparing the values of these pressures across organisms to measure the relative effect sizes. This follows previous work showing that by constraining certain parameters in the genome of influenza, one could detect pressures from a host’s innate immune system.
Together with former Member Raúl Rabadán and Member Nils Baas, Levine has been exploring new topological methods to study the shape of genomic data, employing in particular Betti numbers and barcodes from persistent homology.
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A project begun last year with Members Jean-Claude Nicolas and Sergio Lukic studied interactions between endogenous viruses (ERV) and zinc finger genes. Endogenous retroviruses are remnants of ancient retroviral infections of the germ line that can remain capable of replication within the host genome. In the soma, DNA methylation and repressive chromatin keep the majority of this parasitic DNA transcriptionally silent. However, it is unclear how the host organism adapts to recognize and silence novel invading retroviruses that enter the germ line. KRAB associated protein 1 (KAP1) is a transcriptional regulatory factor that drives the epigenetic repression of many different loci in mammalian genomes. Published experimental data were used to provide evidence that human KAP1 is recruited to endogenous retroviral DNA by KRABcontaining zinc finger transcription factors (TFs), many of which exist in clusters associated with human chromosome 19. The study demonstrates that these clusters are located at hotspots for copy number variation (CNV), generating a large and continuing diversity of zinc finger TFs. These zinc finger genes have varied DNA binding affinities, but their role as transcriptional repressors is conserved. A computational study of the different endogenous retroviruses that invaded the genome during primate evolution produced candidate zinc finger repressors that arise in the genome for each endogenous retrovirus family that enters the genomes of primates, showing that repressors that gained their binding affinity to retrovirus sequences at the same time that their targets invaded the human lineage are preferentially located on chromosome 19 (p-value: 3×10–3).
Professor Levine’s research focused on the influence of external evolutionary pressure on genome organization and cancer and on using new topological methods to study the shape of genomic data, employing in particular Betti numbers and barcodes from persistent homology.
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MEMBERS AND VISITORS f First Term ✦ s Second Term ✦ m Long-term Member ✦ v Visitor ✦ vp Visiting Professor ✦ j Joint Member School of Mathematics Ofer Haim Aharony Particle Physics ✦ Weizmann Institute of Science IBM Einstein Fellow Yacine Ali-Haïmoud Theoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Frank and Peggy Taplin Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Cora Dvorkin Cosmology, Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund and the National Science Foundation
Boaz Katz Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m John N. Bahcall Fellow; additional funding provided by the NASA Einstein Fellowship Program Nakwoo Kim Theoretical Physics ✦ Kyung Hee University ✦ f Matthew Kleban Particle Physics ✦ New York University Funding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund
Nils A. Baas Algebraic Topology, Systems Biology ✦ Norwegian University of Science and Technology ✦ s, j Till Bargheer Quantum Field Theory, String Theory ✦ Uppsala University ✦ s European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship
Rodrigo Fernandez Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Simeon Paul Bird Cosmology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Guido Festuccia High-Energy Theoretical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Marvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Brian Cameron Lacki Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study National Radio Astronomy Observatory Jansky Fellowship
Raphael Flauger Theoretical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study
Paul Langacker Particle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v
Benjamin Greenbaum Systems Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m Eric and Wendy Schmidt Member in Biology
Albert Libchaber Systems Biology ✦ The Rockefeller University ✦ vp
Jo Bovy Cosmology, Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Fellow
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Subo Dong Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member
John J. Hopfield Systems Biology ✦ Princeton University ✦ vp Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Visiting Professor in Biology
Thomas Faulkner Theoretical Physics ✦ University of California, Santa Barbara Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Kfir Blum Particle and Astroparticle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation and the United States Department of Energy
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Tudor Dan Dimofte Mathematical and Particle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study William D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the United States Department of Energy
Simon Caron-Huot Mathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, String Theory, Supersymmetry ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m Marvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation Bernard Chazelle Systems Biology ✦ Princeton University ✦ s Lucy J. Colwell Systems Biology ✦ MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Nathaniel Craig Particle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Daniel Grin Cosmology,Theoretical Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by NASA Thomas Hartman Particle Physics, String Theory ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Corning Glass Works Foundation Fellowship; additional funding provided by the United States Department of Energy Johannes Henn Particle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m AMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the United States Department of Energy Anson Z. Y. Hook Particle Physics ✦ Stanford University Funding provided by the United States Department of Energy
Graham Kribs Particle Physics ✦ University of Oregon ✦ s Funding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation Doron Kushnir Astrophysics ✦ Weizmann Institute of Science Funding provided by the National Science Foundation
Sergio Lukic Systems Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Addie and Harold Broitman Member in Biology Elke Katrin Markert Systems Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m, f Bristol-Myers Squibb Member in Biology Gregory Moore Mathematical Physics ✦ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ f Funding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation Kohta Murase Astroparticle Physics ✦ The Ohio State University Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Fellow Jean-Claude Nicolas Systems Biology ✦ Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Vasily Pestun Theoretical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Roger Dashen Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation Rafael A. Porto Theoretical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Energy Frans Pretorius Theoretical Physics ✦ Princeton University ✦ v Rami Pugatch Systems Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Shlomo S. Razamat Theoretical Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation Hanno Rein Theoretical Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Adam Rej AdS/CFT Correspondence and Integrable Models ✦ Institute for Advanced Study European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship James Rhoads Astrophysics ✦ Arizona State University ✦ v, s David Simmons-Duffin Particle Physics ✦ Harvard University Funding provided by the United States Department of Energy
Tracy Slatyer Particle Physics, Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Aristotle Socrates Astrophysics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ m John N. Bahcall Fellow David S. Spiegel Exoplanetary Science ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member
Tiberiu Tesileanu Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Charles L. Brown Member in Biology
September 6 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Life and Death on the Edge: Strange Supernovae, Irregular Moons and Planets, and Chaotic Stellar Collisions ✦ Hagai Perets, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Tsvi Tlusty Biology ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Founders’ Circle Member
September 10 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Large-Scale Structure and Gravitational Waves ✦ Fabian Schmidt, Princeton University
Brian M. Willett Particle Physics ✦ California Institute of Technology Funding provided by the United States Department of Energy
September 13 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Accretion Disks: Simulations and Theory ✦ Robert Penna, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dan Xie Particle Physics ✦ Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the United States Department of Energy
September 18 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ In Search of Dark Matter: Models and Their Experimental Signatures ✦ Kathryn Zurek, University of Michigan; Visitor, School of Natural Sciences
Kazuya Yonekura Particle Physics ✦ University of Tokyo Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Kathryn Zurek Particle Physics ✦ University of Michigan ✦ v, f
RECORD OF EVENTS Astrophysics Activities July 9 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University July 23 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University July 26 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Using Geology to Measure the Density at the Galactic Plane ✦ Nir Shaviv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem August 20 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University
September 20 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Physics of Stellar Tidal Disruption ✦ James Guillochon, University of California, Santa Cruz September 24 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Boosting the Universe: Observational Consequences of Our Motion ✦ Amanda Yoho, Case Western Reserve University September 25 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ 21cm Cosmology ✦ UeLi Pen, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics September 27 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter ✦ Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York October 2 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Reversing Climate Change with High-Throughput Biochar ✦ Frank Shu, University of California, San Diego, and Academia Sinica October 4 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Galactic Center 130 GeV Line: WIMP or Artifact? ✦ Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University October 5 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler ✦ David Kipping, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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David Skinner Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory ✦ University of Cambridge IBM Einstein Fellow; additional funding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Rashid Sunyaev Astrophysics ✦ Max-Planck Institute für Astrophysik ✦ vp Maureen and John Hendricks Visiting Professor
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October 8 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Is Nothing Sacred? The Cosmological Pay Off from Breaking Lorentz and Diffeormorphism Invariance ✦ Joao Magueijo, Imperial College London Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution ✦ Sun Kwok, The University of Hong Kong October 9 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Eight Dimensions Is Big Enough: Surprises in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game ✦ William Press, The University of Texas at Austin and Los Alamos National Laboratory October 11 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Sculpting Cosmic Gas into Galaxy Clusters ✦ Mike McCourt, University of California, Berkeley October 16 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Observing the Hallmarks of Planet Formation in Circumstellar Disks ✦ Sean Andrews, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics October 18 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Halo Clustering Beyond the Local Bias Model ✦ Tobias Baldauf, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich
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October 22 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Testing the Concordance Cosmology with Weak Gravitational Lensing ✦ Ali Vanderveld, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
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October 23 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Epoch of Reionization ✦ Adam Lidz, University of Pennsylvania October 24 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Weighing the Milky Way Using Tidal Tails of Globular Clusters ✦ Andreas Kuepper, Universität Bonn October 25 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Plans for Relic Neutrino Detection at PTOLEMY: Princeton Tritium Observatory for Light, Early-Universe, Massive-Neutrino Yield ✦ Christopher Tully, Princeton University October 29 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Measures of Cosmic Acceleration in an Inhomogeneous Universe ✦ Phil Bull, University of Oxford
November 2 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Physics of Stochastic Excitation of Stellar Modes ✦ Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology; Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences November 5 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ CMB as a Probe of New Physics: The Story of Cosmic Birefringence ✦ Vera Gluscevic, California Institute of Technology November 6 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ SDSS Spectroscopy of Peculiar Stars ✦ Jill Knapp, Princeton University
December 3 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University December 4 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Cusps, Cores, and Baryons, or How Cold Dark Matter Is the Worst Model of Galaxy Formation, Except for All the Others ✦ Fabio Governato, University of Washington December 6 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Stellar Forensics with Explosions: Supernovae, GammaRay Bursts, and Their Habitats ✦ Maryam Modjaz, New York University
November 8 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ A Ghost Story: The Stellar Halo of the Milky Way Galaxy ✦ Wyn Evans, University of Cambridge
December 11 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Effects and Importance of Galaxy Merging in a Cosmological Context ✦ Eric Bell, University of Michigan
November 13 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Piecing Together the Elements of Planetary System Formation ✦ Brad Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles
December 13 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Radiative Transfer, Black Hole Growth, AGN Feedback in Galaxies ✦ Greg Novak, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
November 15 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20 ✦ Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv University
December 17 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University
November 16 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Its Observational Signatures ✦ Ondrej Pejcha, The Ohio State University November 19 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Cosmology with Massive Gravity ✦ Lavinia Heisenberg, Université de Genève November 27 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Platonic Orbits, Streaming Lattices,Time-Delay Interferometers, and Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Telescopes ✦ Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics November 29 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Examining the Interior Structure of Transiting Planets: From Exo-Jupiters to Kepler’s Super-Earths ✦ Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz
January 7 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ General Discussion ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University January 29 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Making Moons (and Why Venus Has None) ✦ David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology February 4 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Toward an Accurate Dark Matter Power Spectrum Beyond BAO Scales ✦ Naonori Sugiyama, Princeton University February 5 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Cosmological Zoom-In Simulations: Connecting the Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation ✦ Piero Madau, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 7 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Planetary Accretion and the Rapid Development of Habitability ✦ Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Carnegie Institution of Washington
March 14 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Some Thoughts on Measuring Quasar Black Hole Masses ✦ Yue Shen, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
February 12 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Quasars Probing Quasars ✦ Jason X. Prochaska, University of California Observatories, Lick Observatory, and University of California, Santa Cruz
March 19 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Super-Earth or SuperVenus? ✦ James Lloyd, Cornell University
February 19 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ SN Ia: Even Better Standard Candles in the Infrared ✦ Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics February 21 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ A Sinister Universe: Chromo-Natural Inflation and Magnetic Drift ✦ Peter Adshead, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago February 25 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ The Galaxy Bispectrum ✦ Donghui Jeong, Johns Hopkins University February 26 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Andromeda Galaxy and Its Satellites: A Close-Up View of Galaxy Formation ✦ Puragra Guhathakurta, University of California Observatories, Lick Observatory, and University of California, Santa Cruz February 28 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Dark Sector’s First Minute ✦ Adrienne Erickcek, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
March 7 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Jungle News: BAO and Other Developments in the Lya-Forest ✦ Anze Slosar, Brookhaven National Laboratory March 11 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Cosmological Information from Nonlinear Weak Lensing ✦ Zoltan Haiman, Columbia University March 12 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Cold Accretion, Hot Feedback, and the Bimodal Metallicity Distribution in the Circumgalactic Media of Galaxies at z < 1 ✦ Todd Tripp, University of Massachusetts
March 25 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Stratospheric CMB Adventures ✦ Amber Miller, Columbia University March 26 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Wobbly Galaxy: Kinematics North and South with RAVE ✦ Matthias Steinmetz, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam March 28 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Physics of Radiatively Driven Dusty Winds ✦ Mark Krumholz, University of California, Santa Cruz April 2 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Crisis in Fueling the Brightest Quasars at All Epochs ✦ Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University April 4 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Photodynamics: Revealing the Secrets of the Lowest-Mass Planets and Stars ✦ Josh Carter, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics April 9 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation ✦ Chris McKee, University of California, Berkeley April 11 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Orbital Evolution of the Satellites of Saturn ✦ Matija Cuk, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute April 15 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Discussion of Planck Papers ✦ Collin Hill, Princeton University, and Cora Dvorkin, Member, School of Natural Sciences April 16 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Planck Results on the Baryon Content of Dark Matter Halos ✦ Simon White, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
April 22 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Gravitational Lensing by LargeScale Structure ✦ Blake Sherwin, Princeton University April 23 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Eccentricities & Inclinations in Kepler’s Planetary Systems ✦ Eric Ford, University of Florida April 25 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Testing Reionization Using Lyman Alpha Galaxies ✦ James Rhoads, Arizona State University; Visitor, School of Natural Sciences April 30 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ The Hunt for Millisecond Pulsars ✦ Victoria Kaspi, McGill University May 2 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly ✦ Genevieve Graves, Princeton University May 6 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Bias-Limited Extraction of Cosmological Parameters ✦ Meir Shimon, Tel Aviv University May 7 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Exoplanet Theory in a Decade of Transits ✦ Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard University May 9 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ A Pilot for a Very Large Array HI Deep Field ✦ Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia University May 16 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ A Laboratory Study of Magnetic Reconnection: Recent Discoveries on How It Works and Energizes Plasma ✦ Masaaki Yamada, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University May 20 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Discussion of AMS Results ✦ Organizers: Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, and David Spergel, Princeton University
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March 5 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ Type Ia Supernovae Are Head-On Collisions of White Dwarfs in Triple Systems ✦ Boaz Katz, Member, School of Natural Sciences
March 21 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ The Source of Gravity in Newtonian and Relativistic Cosmology ✦ Ed Spiegel, Columbia University
April 18 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Elusive, Rare, Hidden: First Stars ✦ Andrea Ferrara, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
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May 21 Astrophysics Seminar ✦ A Hierarchy of Models for Studying Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate Change ✦ Issac Held, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Princeton University May 30 Astrophysics Informal Seminar ✦ Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector ✦ Francis Halzen, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and University of Wisconsin–Madison June 10 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Solid Inflation ✦ Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University June 24 Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion ✦ Perturbation Theory beyond the Magic ✦ Svetlin Tassev, Princeton University
Particle Physics Activities September 13 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ UV Surprises in N=4 Supergravity ✦ Zvi Bern, University of California, Los Angeles
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September 21 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Confinement in Anti-de Sitter Space ✦ Ofer Haim Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science; Member, School of Natural Sciences
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October 19 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ The Charge Radius of the Proton, A Five Sigma Discrepancy? ✦ Gil Paz, Wayne State University October 24 Physics Group Meeting ✦ A Naturally Attractive Supermodel ✦ Anson Z. Y. Hook, Stanford University; Member, School of Natural Sciences November 7 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Integrand-Level Reduction of High-Loop Scattering Amplitudes via Computational Algebraic Geometry ✦ Yang Zhang, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen November 9 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Evidences for D(G,s) Theories ✦ Michele Del Zotto, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy November 14 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Correlators in AdS4/CFT3 ✦ Suvrat Raju, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India November 19 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ On Sequestering and Decoupling in Stabilized String Models ✦ David Marsh, Cornell University November 20 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Perturbative c-Theorem in d-Dimensions ✦ Kazuya Yonekura, University of Tokyo; Member, School of Natural Sciences
September 24 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Bipartite Field Theories: From D-Brane Probes to Scattering Amplitudes ✦ Sebastian Franco, Durham University
November 26 Informal Phenomenology Discussion ✦ SU(3) Sum Rules for Charm Decay ✦ Dean Robinson, Cornell University
October 5 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Gravity from Rational Curves ✦ David Skinner, University of Cambridge; Member, School of Natural Sciences
November 30 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Modular Constraints on Calabi-Yau Compactifications ✦ Christoph Keller, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
October 8 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ On the Spectrum of 4d and 6d Superconformal Field Theories ✦ Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
December 3 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ The Higgs Boson and Beyond at the Large Hadron Collider ✦ Scott Thomas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
October 10 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Holomorphic Blocks in 3D ✦ Tudor Dan Dimofte, Member, School of Natural Sciences
December 4 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Is There an Alternative to Firewalls? ✦ Raphael Bousso, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
October 15 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Two-Sphere Partition Functions and Gromov-Witten Invariants ✦ David Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara
December 5 Physics Group Meeting ✦ The Hidden Symmetries of Vacua in N=2 Four-Dimensional Quiver Theories ✦ Vasily Pestun, Member, School of Natural Sciences December 10 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls? ✦ Joe Polchinski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara December 11 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Scale and Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory ✦ Joe Polchinski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara December 14 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Projectors, Shadows, and Conformal Blocks ✦ David Simmons-Duffin, Harvard University; Member, School of Natural Sciences December 17 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Horizon Thermodynamics and Entanglement Entropy ✦ Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland December 19 Physics Group Meeting ✦ The Algebra of BPS Wilson Loops in N=2 Chern-Simons-Matter Theories ✦ Brian M. Willett, California Institute of Technology; Member, School of Natural Sciences January 11 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity ✦ David Skinner, University of Cambridge; Member, School of Natural Sciences January 23 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Convexity and Liberation at Large Spin ✦ Alexander Zhiboedov, Princeton University January 30 Physics Group Meeting ✦ From Effective Strings to Critical Strings and Back ✦ Raphael Flauger, Member, School of Natural Sciences February 1 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Locality and Unitarity from Positivity ✦ Nima ArkaniHamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences February 4 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Yangians and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory ✦ Kevin Costello, Northwestern University February 5 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Early Glimpses, Some Fingerprints, and the Future of a “Higgs-Like Boson” ✦ Michael Trott, CERN
February 6 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Higher Lamination and N=2 Line Operators ✦ Dan Xie, Member, School of Natural Sciences
March 27 Physics Group Meeting ✦ On Wilson Loops and Scattering Amplitudes ✦ Johannes Henn, Member, School of Natural Sciences
February 13 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Locality and Unitarity from Positivity—Part 2 ✦ Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
March 28 Particle Physics Post-Moriond: A Discussion ✦ Direct stop/sbottom Searches ✦ Graham Kribs, University of Oregon; Member, School of Natural Sciences ✦ Gluino Searches ✦ Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University ✦ GMSB Searches ✦ David Shih, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ R-Parity Violation Searches ✦ Yevgeny Kats, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ Higgs Results ✦ Arun Thalapillil, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ Planck Results ✦ Tracy Slatyer, Member, School of Natural Sciences ✦ Monojet Searches ✦ Anson Z. Y. Hook, Stanford University; Member, School of Natural Sciences ✦ CPV in Charm System ✦ Jared Evans, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
February 15 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Quantum Computation vs. Firewalls ✦ Daniel Harlow, Princeton University February 25 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Wall-Crossing & Quiver Invariants ✦ Piljin Yi, Korea Institute for Advanced Study March 6 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Dissipation in Effective Field Theory: Black Holes,Water, and the (Early & Late) Universe ✦ Rafael A. Porto, Member, School of Natural Sciences March 8 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Loop Corrections to Inflationary Observables ✦ Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences March 11 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Closed Strings and Noncommutative/Nonassociative Geometry ✦ Dieter Lüst, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik March 12 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ M5Brane Indices from 5d Gauge Theories ✦ Seok Kim, Seoul National University
April 9 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Informal Talk on AMS Results ✦ Kfir Blum, Member, School of Natural Sciences April 10 Physics Group Meeting ✦ BPS Boundary Conditions of 4d N=4 Yang-Mills Theory ✦ Masahito Yamazaki, Princeton University April 17 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Quantum Field Theory on (Complete) Light Cones and Regge Theory ✦ Simon Caron-Huot, Member, School of Natural Sciences April 19 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Light States in Chern-Simons Matter Theory Coupled to Fundamental Matter ✦ Jonathan Maltz, Stanford University
March 15 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Yet Another Dual Description for N=1 SQCD ✦ Yuji Tachikawa, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
April 22 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ ACME: Obtaining an Electron Electric Dipole Moment from ThO ✦ Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
March 22 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Supersymmetric Observables from Curved Manifolds ✦ Thomas Dumitrescu, Princeton University
April 23 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Aspects of Three Dimensional N=2 Chern Simons Matter Field Theories ✦ Ken Intriligator, University of California, San Diego
March 26 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Superstring Amplitudes as a Mellin Transform of Supergravity ✦ Tomasz Taylor, Northeastern University
May 8 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Decrypting the Warped Black Holes ✦ Monica Guica, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies
May 13 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Classical Conformal Block and Painleve VI ✦ Alexander B. Zamolodchikov, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 14 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Dark Photons in Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Experiment ✦ Josef Pradler, Johns Hopkins University May 21 Informal High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ Dbrane Plane Waves, Hyperscaling Violation, and Entanglement Entropy ✦ Narayan Krishnan, Chennai Mathematical Institute
The Simons Center for Systems Biology Activities August 2 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Adaptive Immunity ✦ Arnold J. Levine, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences August 17 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Pattern Formation in Expanding Cell Population ✦ Xiongfei Fu, The University of Hong Kong September 27 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Marta Luksza, Columbia University October 2 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Predicting Outcomes Using Stem Cell Signatures ✦ Elke Katrin Markert, Member, School of Natural Sciences October 11 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science October 25 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Tiberiu Tesileanu, Member, School of Natural Sciences
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March 13 Physics Group Meeting ✦ Two Emission Mechanisms in the Fermi Bubbles: A Possible Signal of Annihilating Dark Matter ✦ Tracy Slatyer, Member, School of Natural Sciences
April 8 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ (Why) Is Helicity Lorentz-Invariant? ✦ Philip Schuster, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
May 10 High Energy Theory Seminar ✦ The Entanglement Renyi Entropies of Disjoint Intervals in AdS/CFT ✦ Thomas Faulkner, University of California, Santa Barbara; Member, School of Natural Sciences
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November 5 Joint Lab Meeting on Breast Cancer (The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Simons Center for Systems Biology Members) November 7 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Evolutionary Dynamics and the Design of Natural Proteins ✦ Frank Poelwijk, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center November 15 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Sergio Lukic, Member, School of Natural Sciences
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December 6 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Heterogeneity and Anticipation in LiFraumeni Syndrome Meeting ✦ Heterogeneity, Anticipation, and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in TP53 Mutation Carriers: A Survey of IARC TP53 Database ✦ Pierre Hainaut, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France ✦ Estimating Prevalence of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: Experience from Malaysia ✦ Hany Ariffin, University of Malaya Cancer Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur ✦ TP53 p.R337H Mutation: High Prevalence and Moderate Penetrance of a Founder Mutant in Brazil ✦ Maria Isabel Achatz, Hospital A. C. Carmargo-Fundação Antonio Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil ✦ Genetic Basis for Phenotypic Heterogeneity and Anticipation in a Family with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: HighResolution Analysis Using Whole Genome Sequencing ✦ Chang S. Chan, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey ✦ Is Mutant p53 Sufficient to Explain LFS? ✦ David Malkin, University of Toronto ✦ The NCI Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Study and Genetic Anticipation in Cancer Predisposition Syndromes ✦ Sharon A. Savage, National Cancer Institute
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December 10 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Geometry and Topology of an Intracellular Membrane ✦ Greg Huber, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara January 22 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Morse Theory and Stochastic Dynamics ✦ Jorge Kurchan, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris January 23 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Order in Amorphous Solids ✦ Jorge Kurchan, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
January 25 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Dynamics of HIV Treatment and the Evolution of Resistance ✦ Daniel Rosenbloom, Harvard University January 25 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ The Topology of Evolution ✦ Raul Rabadan, Columbia University January 31 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Rami Pugatch, Member, School of Natural Sciences February 5 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Understanding Medieval Migration through Ancient DNA ✦ Patrick J. Geary, Professor, School of Historical Studies February 7 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Michael Lesnick, Member, School of Mathematics February 13 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Modeling Protein-DNA Specificities from High-Throughput Binding Data (Including p53) ✦ Todd Riley, Columbia University February 14 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ G. V. Shivashankar, National University of Singapore February 19 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Joint Group Meeting ✦ Longobard DNA Studies February 21 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Benjamin Greenbaum, Member, School of Natural Sciences February 28 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory March 1 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Two Statistical Models for Biomolecular Network Evolution ✦ Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
March 13 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ The Evolution of the p53 Family of Genes and Their Functions in the Origins of Cancers ✦ Arnold J. Levine, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences March 28 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Sergio Lukic, Member, School of Natural Sciences April 15 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Tracking Virus Emergence and Transmission ✦ Elodie Ghedin, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh April 17 Governor’s Conference on Effective Partnering in Cancer Research ✦ PI3K Inhibitors in the Therapy of Breast Cancer ✦ José Baselga, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ✦ Oncoprotein-Induced Feedback— Biological and Therapeutic Implications ✦ Neal Rosen, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ✦ Overcoming Adaptive Responses to Targeted Therapies That Confer Drug Resistance ✦ Joan S. Brugge, Harvard Medical School ✦ Future Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Targets: Put the Cart before the Horses? ✦ Tak W. Mak, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and University of Toronto ✦ Therapeutic Manipulation of the Immune Microenvironment of Cancer ✦ Drew M. Pardoll ✦ The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine May 13 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ Connecting Pathway Thermodynamics to Enzyme Investment ✦ Elad Noor, Weizmann Institute of Science ✦ DNA Is Not Merely the Secret of Life: Using Chemical Information to Control the Structure of Matter ✦ Ned Seeman, New York University May 30 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Ethan Akin, The City College of New York June 19 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Seminar ✦ The Shape of Data ✦ Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University June 20 The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talks on Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspects of Biology ✦ Albert Libchaber, The Rockefeller University; Visiting Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Prospects in Theoretical Physics
rospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) 2013 was held from July 15 to 26 on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. The focus of the 2013 program was LHC Physics. The topic was timely: with the discovery of a Higgs-like boson a year ago, the participants had the opportunity to discuss the latest interpretations and analyses and the implications for the field.
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PiTP is an intensive two-week summer program geared specifically to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars considering a career in theoretical physics or astrophysics. First held at the Institute in 2002, Prospects in Theoretical Physics has, in past years, covered topics ranging from Cosmology to String Theory. One of the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals in offering PiTP is to contribute to the training of the next generation of physicists. A special effort is made to involve women and minorities, along with graduate students in small universities who typically do not have the same opportunities and access to leaders in the field as graduate students in large research institutions. Roughly one hundred participants from fifteen countries were officially enrolled in the two-week program. Additionally, the program lectures attracted many students, postdocs, and professors from nearby institutions.
In addition to the organizers, lecturers included: Beate Heinemann of the University of California, Berkeley; Elliot Lipeles of the University of Pennsylvania; Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study; Michelangelo Mangano of CERN; Patrick Meade of Stony Brook University, The State University of New York; Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study; Sunil Somalwar of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Raman Sundrum of the University of Maryland; Jesse Thaler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Natalia Toro of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; Chris Tully of Princeton University; Neal Weiner of New York University; Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study; and Kathryn Zurek of the University of Michigan. Clockwise from top left: Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor Edward Witten, Kathryn Zurek of the University of Michigan, and Raman Sundrum of the University of Maryland
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The 2013 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program was jointly organized by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Chiara Nappi of Princeton University, and Scott Thomas of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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Visiting Professor Marco Battaglini (center) of Princeton University led the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 theme on Economics and Politics, which brought together scholars from economics, political science, and history.
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he theme explored by the School of Social Science in 2012–13 was Economics and Politics. Twentythree scholars from a pool of 211 applicants from the United States and abroad were invited to be part of the School’s scholarly community as Members. Seven Visitors also participated in the year’s activities. Fields of inquiry of the group included political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and philosophy. Funding is gratefully acknowledged from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, which provided support for the theme seminar, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Wolfensohn Family Foundation, as well as the Friends of the Institute, AMIAS, and Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., and Annette L. Nazareth.
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During the 2012–13 academic year, the School conducted two formal seminar series—the Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar under the guidance of Professor Joan Scott and the Economics and Politics Seminar, which brought together scholars from economics, political science, and history, led by Visiting Professor Marco Battaglini of Princeton University. In addition, two reading groups—Ethnography and Theory, led by Professor Didier Fassin, and Theory Too, led by Professor Danielle Allen—met regularly throughout the year. The School also continued publication of its series Occasional Papers, which can be accessed online from the Institute’s website.
On a happier note, a search for the next Albert O. Hirschman Professor was successfully completed this year. Economist Dani Rodrik will leave his position as Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to join the School in July 2013. Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, published Education, Justice, and Democracy (coedited with Rob
Reich, University of Chicago Press, 2013). She completed Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Norton, 2014) as well as a volume on youth, new media, and democratic politics (coedited with Jennifer Light, Northwestern University), “Emergent Politics: New Media, Youth, and the Future of Democracy” (under consideration, MIT Press). In addition, she worked on and published a handful of articles on topics ranging from social connectedness and egalitarianism to late-twentieth-century changes in the law of association in the United States and public-sphere theory. She hosted a workshop at the Institute on new media, youth, and democracy as well as a series of seminars on the intersections of language, history, and political thought, and she gave lectures and papers at Berkeley, Yale, Williams, Princeton, and the University of
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In December, the School mourned the passing of one of its founding Faculty members, Emeritus Professor Albert O. Hirschman. On March 24, the School joined together with his family, friends, and colleagues to hold a memorial service in Wolfensohn Hall.
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Colorado Boulder. Lastly, she launched a collaborative research project on assessment in the humanities and liberal arts (HULA) and published op-eds on educational policy.
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George Mailath (front) of the University of Pennsylvania with Member Venkataraman Bhaskar, economists who collaborated on research involving the curse of long horizons.
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, devoted most of the year to the project Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology, related to the Advanced Grant “Ideas” he received from the European Research Council, in particular completing ethnographic research in a French prison. Following publication of his reader La Question Morale: Une Anthologie Critique by the Presses Universitaires de France (2013), he lectured on moral economies at the Université de Montréal and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Marseille, and on resentment at the Universität Frankfurt and University of the Witwatersrand. On law enforcement, he published Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity Press, 2013) and gave a series of related lectures at New York University, Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Melbourne, and the Université Paris 13. His work on policing was included in two exhibitions in the museums of Annecy and Frankfurt. On asylum and refugees, he had articles in Public Culture and the Revue Française de Sociologie, organized a symposium in Johannesburg as Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar, and gave a keynote lecture for an international conference at the Swinburne Institute of Technology as well as a public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study. He delivered the Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe on “The Denial of Racial Discrimination” at the University of Michigan, the keynote lecture “What Is Critique?” at the twelfth European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, and the
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Lectio Magistralis on “The History of Public Health” at the Sapienza University in Rome for the First Italian Conference of Medical Anthropology. As Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong for the third and last year, he contributed to the scientific conception of the Center for the Humanities and Medicine, gave classes and lectures in the Faculties of Medicine and of Humanities, and helped develop a research program on humanitarianism in East Asia. He also taught courses titled “From the Anthropology of Security to the Ethnography of Policing” at Princeton University and “Social Sciences and Moral Issues” at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He wrote two essays, “A Case for Critical Ethnography,” in Social Science and Medicine, and “Why Ethnography Matters,” in Cultural Anthropology, and two chapters, “The Parallel Lives of Anthropology and Philosophy” for a collective book being published by Duke University Press and “Anthropology as Critical Practice” for an edited volume being published by the Editions de l’EHESS. His book Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (University of California Press, 2011) received Honorable Mention for the 2012 Bateson Prize.
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received an honorary degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She was the Treaty of 1713 Professor at Utrecht University; the keynote speaker at the conference of Italian historians of women in Padua; and she gave a Max Weber Lecture at the European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). On the occasion of the publication of a group of her essays translated into Turkish, she gave lectures at Bogaziçi and Sabanci universities in Istanbul. She lectured at the University of Bern (Switzerland), at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at George Washington University. She continues to edit the journal History of the Present, which won the 2012 award for the best new journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. She has rejoined the American Association of University Professors’ Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and she continues to work with a growing group of scholars, architectural preservationists, students, and many others to oppose the plans to restructure the New York Public Library.
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In December, the School mourned the passing of Albert Hirschman, one of its founding Faculty members. On March 24, the School joined together with his family, friends, and colleagues, including James Wolfensohn (at the podium), Chairman Emeritus of the Institute’s Board of Trustees, to hold a memorial service in Wolfensohn Hall.
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In the academic year 2012–13, Emeritus Professor Michael Walzer delivered the Henry L. Stimson Lectures at Yale University on “What Happened to National Liberation?” He gave the Global Society Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, the B. G. Rudolph Lecture at Syracuse University, and the Bozeman Lecture at Sarah Lawrence College. He also lectured at Harvard, Georgetown, Swarthmore, and Colgate, and at the Gaede Institute of Westmont College (California). In June, he received an honorary degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and gave the keynote lecture for the annual meeting of the Israeli Institute of Asian and African Studies. His book In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible appeared in an Italian translation; Thinking Politically came out in Japanese; and Thick and Thin: Political Argument at Home and Abroad in Polish. A book-length dialogue with Ramin Jahanbegloo was published in Italy under the title Conversazioni con Michael Walzer: Il Pluralismo, la Libertà, la Sinistra. He retired this year as the coeditor of Dissent magazine.
MEMBERS AND VISITORS
Alexander V. Hirsch Political Science ✦ Princeton University
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Moon-Kie Jung Sociology ✦ University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
October 10 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Communication with Multiple Senders: An Experiment ✦ Alistair J. Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Marco Battaglini Economics ✦ Princeton University ✦ vp Lucas Bessire Anthropology ✦ University of Oklahoma
Sheena Kang Political Theory ✦ The University of Chicago ✦ a Karin Knorr Cetina Sociology ✦ The University of Chicago ✦ v
Venkataraman Bhaskar Economics ✦ University College London Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., and Annette L. Nazareth Member
Patchen Markell Political Science ✦ The University of Chicago
João Biehl Anthropology ✦ Princeton University ✦ v
Jens Meierhenrich Political Science ✦ London School of Economics and Political Science Louise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member
Eric Chaney Economics ✦ Harvard University Alev Çinar Political Science ✦ Mug˘ la University Randall Curren Philosophy ✦ University of Rochester Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member John M. de Figueiredo Economics ✦ Duke University AMIAS Member James Doyle Philosophy ✦ Institute for Advanced Study ✦ v Vincent Dubois Political Sociology ✦ Université de Strasbourg Funding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund David L. Eng Literature ✦ University of Pennsylvania
Laurence Ralph Anthropology ✦ Harvard University Michael Ralph Anthropology ✦ New York University The Wolfensohn Family Member Catherine Rottenberg Harlem Renaissance Studies, Jewish American Studies ✦ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ✦ v Wen-Ching Sung Medical Anthropology ✦ University of Toronto ✦ v Caroline Thomas Economics ✦ The University of Texas at Austin Deutsche Bank Member Peter D. Thomas Political Philosophy ✦ Brunel University ✦ v
Sara R. Farris Sociology ✦ University of Cambridge
Deva Woodly Political Science ✦ The New School Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member
Jessica Goldberg Medieval History ✦ University of Pennsylvania
Everett Zhang Anthropology ✦ Princeton University
Neve Gordon Political Science ✦ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Jens Großer Political Science, Economics ✦ Florida State University Alexander L. Hinton Anthropology ✦ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ✦ v
October 4 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Reconsidering Risk and the “Maghrib Traders”: Agency Relations, Contract Enforcement, and the Economy of the Eleventh-Century Islamic Mediterranean ✦ Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Social Science
October 12 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by Vincent Dubois, Université de Strasbourg, and Everett Zhang, Princeton University; Members, School of Social Science October 17 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-Controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks ✦ Maria Petrova, New Economic School, Moscow October 18 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Largest Financial Market: Architecture and Sociology ✦ Karin Knorr Cetina, The University of Chicago; Visitor, School of Social Science October 24 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Imperfect Public and Private Monitoring in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma: Experimental Evidence ✦ Venkataraman Bhaskar, University College London; Member, School of Social Science ( joint work with Masaki Aoyagi and Guillaume Frechette) October 25 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia ✦ Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School, Moscow; Member, School of Social Science October 26 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ Discussion of paper submitted by Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science November 7 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ OtherRegarding Preferences, Group Identity, and Political Participation: An Experiment ✦ Arthur Schram, University of Amsterdam ( joint work with Pedro Robalo and Joep Sonnemans)
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Ruben Enikolopov Economics ✦ New Economic School, Moscow Deutsche Bank Member
Nicola Perugini Anthropology ✦ Al Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences Richard B. Fisher Member
October 11 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Curse of Uninformed Voting: An Experimental Study ✦ Jens Großer, Florida State University; Member, School of Social Science
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November 8 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Injury of Nostalgia, or The Stories a Gang Tells about Itself ✦ Laurence Ralph, Harvard University; Member, School of Social Science
January 10 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ An Education in Sustainability ✦ Randall Curren, University of Rochester; Member, School of Social Science
February 7 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Authority and Free Speech ✦ Caroline Thomas, The University of Texas at Austin; Member, School of Social Science
November 14 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Electoral Competition, Costly Campaigns, and Independent Political Expenditure ✦ Carlo Prato, Georgetown University
January 16 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Dynamic Legislative Bargaining with Veto Power: Theory and Experiments ✦ Salvatore Nunnari, University of California, San Diego
February 13 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ The Transparency Curse: Private Information and Political Freedom ✦ John B. Londregan, Princeton University
November 15 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Education, Justice, and Well-Being ✦ Randall Curren, University of Rochester; Member, School of Social Science
January 17 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Demographic Transition and the Position of Women: A Marriage Market Perspective ✦ Venkataraman Bhaskar, University College London; Member, School of Social Science
February 14 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Presentation of Law in Everyday Life ✦ Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and Political Science; Member, School of Social Science
November 28 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking ✦ Roland Benabou, Princeton University ( joint work with Jean Tirole) November 29 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Racial Constitution of the U.S. EmpireState ✦ Moon-Kie Jung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Social Science November 30 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by Lucas Bessire, University of Oklahoma, and Nicola Perugini, Al Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences; Members, School of Social Science
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December 5 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Peace Talks, Mediation, and Strategic Militarization ✦ Adam Meirowitz, Princeton University ( joint work with Massimo Morelli, Kristopher Ramsay, and Francesco Squintani)
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December 6 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship ✦ Alexander V. Hirsch, Princeton University; Member, School of Social Science December 13 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Moral World of Law Enforcement ✦ Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science December 14 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ The Relationship between Theory and Practice: Remarks Following Deleuze and Guattari’s Visit to the West Bank ✦ Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Member, School of Social Science
January 23 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Media Power ✦ Andrea Prat, Columbia University Philosophy/Mentalités ✦ The Lost Tradition of Equality ✦ Daniel Mandell, Truman State University January 24 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Long-Term Effects of Exploitation and Ethnic Cleansing: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos ✦ Eric Chaney, Harvard University; Member, School of Social Science January 25 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by WenChing Sung, University of Toronto, and Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and Political Science; Visitor and Member, respectively, School of Social Science January 31 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Toward an Anthropology of Actually Existing Alterity in the Gran Chaco ✦ Lucas Bessire, University of Oklahoma; Member, School of Social Science February 1 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ The Political Character of Persuasion ✦ Deva Woodly, The New School; Member, School of Social Science February 6 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Intergroup Public Goods Games and Experiments ✦ Jens Großer, Florida State University; Member, School of Social Science
February 20 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-Blowing ✦ Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University February 21 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Locating Political Theory: Globalized Intellectual Traditions Merge with Islamic Thought in Turkey ✦ Alev Çinar, Mug˘ la University; Member, School of Social Science February 27 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ War Signals: A Theory of Trade,Trust, and Conflict ✦ Fabrizio Zilibotti, Universität Zürich ( joint work with Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig) February 28 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Reparations and the Human ✦ David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Social Science March 1 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by Karin Knorr Cetina, The University of Chicago, and Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and Political Science; Visitor and Member, respectively, School of Social Science March 6 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Critical Junctures: Independence Movements and Democracy in Africa ✦ Léonard Wantchékon, Princeton University ( joint work with Omar García-Ponce) Theory Too Reading Group ✦ Western and Islamic Knowledges ✦ Alev Çinar, Mug˘ la University; Member, School of Social Science
March 7 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt ✦ Patchen Markell, The University of Chicago; Member, School of Social Science
April 10 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science ✦ Eric Chaney, Harvard University; Member, School of Social Science
May 6 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ To Think What We Are Doing ✦ Patchen Markell, The University of Chicago; Member, School of Social Science
March 13 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Emotions and Political Unrest ✦ Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University ( joint work with Francesco Passarelli)
April 11 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Cheap Talk with Multiple Audiences: An Experimental Analysis ✦ Marco Battaglini, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, School of Social Science
May 8 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Public Sector Personnel Economics ✦ John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University; Member, School of Social Science ( joint work with Charles M. Cameron and David E. Lewis)
April 17 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Experimentation and Learning in Political Organizations ✦ Alexander V. Hirsch, Princeton University; Member, School of Social Science
May 9 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Securitizing Human Rights: Lawfare and the Assault on Rights Work in Israel/Palestine ✦ Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Member, School of Social Science
April 18 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ A Coercive Turn in French Welfare? The Paradox of Legal Rigor in Anti-Fraud Policy ✦ Vincent Dubois, Université de Strasbourg; Member, School of Social Science
May 15 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Choosing and Enforcing Business Relationships in the Medieval Mediterranean: Reassessing the “Maghribi Traders” ✦ Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Social Science
Philosophy/Mentalités ✦ Little Rock’s “Social Question”: Reading Hannah Arendt on School Desegregation and Social Climbing ✦ Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College March 14 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ A Tale of Two Movements: How Changing Discourse Changed Politics on Marriage Equality and the Living Wage ✦ Deva Woodly, The New School; Member, School of Social Science March 21 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The “Great Savior” Was Dead: The Beginning of the Change in the Structures of Feeling in China ✦ Everett Zhang, Princeton University; Member, School of Social Science March 22 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ Psychic Nowhere: Parachute Children, False Self, and the Politics of Attachment ✦ David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania; Member, School of Social Science March 27 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Democratic Councils vs.Traditional Leadership: Experimental Evidence on Local Institutions in Afghanistan ✦ Ruben Enikolopov, New Economics School, Moscow; Member, School of Social Science
April 4 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ The Question of Liability: Debt, Force, and Accountability in Senegal ✦ Michael Ralph, New York University; Member, School of Social Science April 5 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science, and Laurence Ralph, Harvard University; Member, School of Social Science
April 24 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ N-Dimensional Blotto Game with Asymmetric Battlefield Values—The U.S. Presidential Elections ✦ Caroline Thomas, University of Texas at Austin; Member, School of Social Science
May 16 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Femonationalism and the Regular Army of Labor Called Migrant Women ✦ Sara R. Farris, University of Cambridge; Member, School of Social Science
April 25 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Government Careers and Human Capital: Preliminary Findings from Public-Sector Personnel Records ✦ John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University; Member, School of Social Science May 1 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship ✦ Kenneth Shotts, Stanford University ( joint work with Alexander V. Hirsch) May 2 Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar ✦ Settler Appropriations in Palestine/Israel ✦ Nicola Perugini, Al Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences; Member, School of Social Science May 3 Ethnography and Theory Reading Group ✦ Discussion of papers submitted by Lucas Bessire, University of Oklahoma, and Laurence Ralph, Harvard University; Members, School of Social Science
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April 3 Economics and Politics Seminar ✦ Reconceiving the Public Sphere ✦ Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science
April 19 Theory Too Reading Group ✦ Civic Integration, Gender Equality, and Nationalism ✦ Sara R. Farris, University of Cambridge; Member, School of Social Science
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Applicants to the Schools are motivated primarily by their need for free time in which to carry out research and writing.
The Libraries he Historical Studies–Social Science Library (Marcia Tucker, Librarian) contains some 125,000 volumes and has subscriptions to over one thousand journals. The Library is strongest in classical studies, ancient history, and archaeology, but it contains basic document collections, reference works, and important secondary works of scholarship in most fields of history and the social sciences. The journal collection is extensive, and fairly complete back runs exist to the founding of the Institute. The HS–SS Library has occupied its present building since 1964.
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The Institute’s rare book collection, the gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, consists of about two thousand volumes on the history of science and was compiled by Herbert M. Evans in the 1930s. The collection includes numerous first editions of important scientific works in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and the life sciences. Additional volumes have been added through various gifts, most notably through the Leon Levy Fund, expanding the subject scope of the collection. The Library contains a collection of Mongolian and East Asian materials, the library of Walther Heissig, a noted Central Asian studies scholar, which came from the Princeton University East Asian Studies Department and Princeton University Library. The Library holds Giorgio Tonelli’s collection of Enlightenment materials as well as collections from past Professors including Ernst H. Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Kirk Varnedoe, Oleg Grabar, Clifford Geertz, and Harry Woolf. The microfilm collections of the HS–SS Library include a large selection from Manuscripta, a collection of early printed books from the Vatican Library, and a microfilm copy of the slips presented for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae from the Bavarian Academy, with additional recent material on CD. The Library has microfilm copies of the papers of Simone Weil. The Library houses the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center (Christine Di Bella, Archivist). The records in the collection date from the 1930s and consist of official correspondence of the Director’s Office, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning past Faculty and Members, records of the Electronic Computer Project, and the papers of select Faculty members, including astrophysicist John N. Bahcall. The archives also include the Institute’s photograph and oral history collections. Digitized copies of many photographs, documents, and other materials from the archives are available online at http://cdm.itg.ias.edu. The reading room for the archives is located in the annex of the HS–SS Library. It provides a space for researchers to consult resources from the archives, as well as a display area featuring selections from the collections. A generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation supports the ongoing work of the Institute to formally organize and preserve the important historical materials already in its possession and to serve as a repository for essential source materials going forward. The Mathematics–Natural Sciences Library (Momota Ganguli, Librarian) is located in Fuld Hall, with smaller departmental branches in Bloomberg Hall and compact shelving spread across campus. The collection, which includes about thirty thousand volumes of monographs and bound periodicals as well as 140 print and/or electronic subscriptions, spans pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical and mathematical physics, and biology. The M–NS Library has an extensive collection of the collected works of mathematicians, including those of Cauchy, Descartes, Fermat, Gauss, Hardy, and Poincaré. Each year, the M–NS Library adds about three hundred books to its collection. The Mathematics–Natural Sciences Library supports the three outreach programs of the Institute, namely Women and Mathematics, Prospects in Theoretical Physics, and the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute held annually, the first two at the Institute and the third in Park City, Utah. Books relevant to the assigned research areas of these programs are collected and made available to the participants.
All scholars affiliated with the Institute enjoy the same privileges as Princeton University faculty in the Princeton University Library system and also have privileges in the library of the Princeton Theological Seminary. The Librarians and the Faculty of all four Schools at the Institute warmly appreciate gifts of books and publications from former and current Faculty, Members, and Visitors of the Institute.
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Both of the Institute’s libraries provide individualized services, access to databases, and environments to facilitate research. The Libraries participate in the OCLC Research Libraries Partnership, which affords Institute scholars access to an extensive interlibrary loan system. The Institute’s online catalogue is accessible via http://library.ias.edu. Scanners and other support peripherals are available in the Libraries.
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The IAS Community or more than eighty years, the Institute for Advanced Study has had a profound influence on the fields of study represented here: historical studies, mathematics, natural sciences, and social science. Any day at lunch or tea, you will hear leading scientists and scholars from around the world discussing topics as diverse as the response to terrorism, understanding the organization of biological systems, ancient DNA analysis, the very latest developments in string theory, the mathematical basis of computer security, morals and morality in contemporary society, and the implications of the discovery of a Higgs-like boson.
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Members, who typically stay for one year but may stay for up to five years, live together with their families in housing adjacent to the Institute campus in what might be described as a true academic village. Throughout the year, the Office of the Director hosts a broad array of concerts, lectures, and programs as listed on the following pages. In addition, the Institute offers numerous and varied activities for Members, Visitors, and their families. In the 2012–13 academic year, these included films, play readings, clay modeling, pottery, knitting, yoga, tennis lessons, jazz evenings, trips to museums and other cultural sites, and activities for children in the Institute community.
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A range of events is also organized for the Friends of the Institute, including Friends Forums, Fireside Chats, a Culture and Cuisine Series, monthly breakfasts and lunches with IAS Members, a holiday reception, and the annual meeting and barbecue hosted by the Director. Several special gatherings are also held during the year for members of the Founders’, Chairman’s, and Director’s Circles.
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RECORD OF EVENTS September 24 Institute Welcome Reception September 28 AMIAS Family Barbecue October 3 Public Lecture ✦ The Symmetry and Simplicity of the Laws of Nature and the Higgs Boson ✦ Juan Maldacena, Professor, School of Natural Sciences October 5–6 Edward T. Cone Concert Series ✦ Across the Continent ✦ Derek Bermel, clarinet, and Christopher Taylor, piano Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk ✦ Andreia Pinto-Correia, Christopher Taylor, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence October 14 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert ✦ Lark Quartet and Percussion ✦ Deborah Buck and Basia Danilow, violins; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Caroline Stinson, cello; Yousif Sheronick, percussion October 17 Friends Forum ✦ The Frontiers and Limits of Science ✦ Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study October 19 Writers Conversation ✦ Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson ✦ Kevin Jerome Everson, Filmmaker, Artist, and Professor, University of Virginia October 23 Art Lecture ✦ Recognition: Theme and Meta-theme in Northern Renaissance Art ✦ Mitch Merback, Professor, Johns Hopkins University October 26 Public Lecture ✦ The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist ✦ Nima ArkaniHamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Joshua Modney, Andreia Pinto-Correia, Mariel Roberts, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Betty Shamieh, and Derek Bermel, Artistin-Residence November 18 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert ✦ International Tour of Brass Music ✦ Jerry Bryant and Donald Batchelder, trumpets; R. J. Kelley, horn; Brian Mahany, trombone, Andrew Bove, tuba November 28 Friends Forum ✦ Petrified Emotions: Understanding Graffiti in the City of Aphrodite ✦ Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies November 30–December 1 Edward T. Cone Concert Series ✦ shifted during flight ✦ eighth blackbird Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk ✦ Andy Akiho, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Yvonne Lam, Michael J. Maccaferri, Tim Munro, Nicholas Photinos, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence December 3 AMIAS Talk ✦ Flexner’s Utopia: A Talk for the Institute Community about the History and Relevance of IAS ✦ Robert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study December 5 Public Policy Lecture ✦ The Lives of Others ✦ Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School December 10 Art Lecture ✦ Up Close and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization, and Uganda’s Troubled Past ✦ Sidney Kasfir, Professor Emerita, Emory University December 11 Children’s Holiday Party
November 9 Friends Culture and Cuisine ✦ Shakespeare’s Kitchen ✦ Francine Segan, Food Historian
December 20 Institute Community Holiday Party
November 10 American Repertory Ballet Family Program ✦ Dancing Stories
January 12 Princeton Symphony Orchestra BRAVO! Family Concert ✦ Brass Quintet
November 15 Fertile Crescent Concert ✦ Songs of the Fertile Crescent ✦ Haleh Abghari, soprano; Derek Bermel, clarinet; Dünya Ensemble; Mivos Quartet
January 20 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert ✦ The Declassified Plays Mozart ✦ Owen Dalby, violin; Meena Bhasin, viola; Hamilton Berry, cello; James Austen Smith and ToniMarie Marchioni, oboes; Alicia Lee and Paul Cho, clarinets; Seth Baer and Shelley Monroe Huang, bassoons; Eric Reed and Alma Liebrecht, horns
Fertile Crescent Concert Talk ✦ Haleh Abghari, Olivia De Prato, Bushra El-Turk, Füsun Köksal, Robert Labaree, Victor Lowrie,
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January 30 Dr. S.T. Lee Lecture ✦ (Ancient) History on Screen ✦ Oliver Stone, Director; Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School of Historical Studies; Nathanael Andrade, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon; Yannis Hamilakis, Professor, University of Southampton; Gary Leva, Director, Film Historian February 1–2 Edward T. Cone Concert Series ✦ Eclectic/Electric ✦ Wiek Hijmans, electric guitar; Derek Bermel, clarinet; JACK Quartet Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk ✦ Wiek Hijmans, Kevin McFarland, Christopher Otto, John Pickford Richards, Ari Streisfeld, and Derek Bermel, Artistin-Residence February 5 Term II Member Welcome Dinner February 20 Writers Conversation ✦ The Multi-Logics of West African Improvisations: And Some Others ✦ Sheron Wray, Choreographer, Dancer, Researcher
March 9 Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk ✦ John DiPinto, Johanna McKeon, Steve Smith, Wendy S. Walters, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence March 13 Friends Forum ✦ Your Brain at Work: Facts, Theory, and Just So Stories ✦ John J. Hopfield, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Visiting Professor, School of Natural Sciences March 20 Einstein Legacy Society Talk ✦ America’s Retirement Crisis ✦ Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAACREF; Trustee, Institute for Advanced Study March 24 Memorial for Albert O. Hirschman, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science March 27 Writers Conversation ✦ How to Love Wine ✦ Eric Asimov, Wine Critic, The New York Times
March 2 Midwinter Party for Faculty, Members, and Staff
April 3 Public Lecture ✦ The Arduous Path of Refugees in the Changing Landscape of Asylum ✦ Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science
March 6 Public Lecture ✦ When Truth Gets in the Way: Addressing Multiple Realities in Intrastate Conflicts ✦ Michael van Walt van Praag, Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies
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March 8 Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk ✦ Johanna McKeon, Wendy S. Walters, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence
February 22 Friends Culture and Cuisine ✦ Steal the Menu: Forty Years in Food ✦ Raymond Sokolov, Food Critic
March 5 Art Lecture ✦ A Multitude of Images ✦ David Joselit, Carnegie Professor, Yale University
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Aisha de Haas, Okieriete Onaodowan, Dan’yelle Williamson, acting; John DiPinto, piano and music direction
March 8–9 Edward T. Cone Concert Series ✦ Songs from Golden Motors: A Staged Reading ✦ Derek Bermel, music; Wendy S. Walters, lyrics and book; Johanna McKeon, direction; Lawrence Clayton, Chuck Cooper,
April 5 Friends Fireside Chat ✦ Today’s Landscape of Pharmaceutical Research in Cancer ✦ Elliott Sigal, Chief Scientific Officer and President of Research and Development for BristolMyers Squibb April 9 Art Lecture ✦ The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums, and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II ✦ Olivier Lugon, Professor, Université de Lausanne
April 21 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert ✦ Cello Recital ✦ Alistair MacRae, cello; Jeewon Park, piano April 24 Public Lecture ✦ A Hollywood Celebrity, the “Bad Boy” of Music, and the History of Modern Wireless Communications ✦ Mark Goresky, Long-term Member, School of Mathematics April 26 Friends Fireside Chat ✦ Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago) ✦ Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library May 1 Friends Forum ✦ Changing Politics: New Issue Acceptance and the American Way ✦ Deva Woodly, Friends of the Institute Member, School of Social Science May 3 Public Lecture ✦ The Latest News from the Cosmos ✦ Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences May 8 Institute Community Concert ✦ Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence, Anthony Davis, Christina von Döbeln, Léo Dubois, Noriko Manabe, Taylor Noble, Zoe Sarnak, and Nigel Smith May 10 AMIAS Lecture ✦ Gone with the Wind: Black Holes and their Gusty Influence on the Birth of Galaxies ✦ Nadia Zakamska, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University; former Member, School of Natural Sciences May 15 Public Lecture ✦ Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center ✦ Ray Monk, Professor, University of Southampton May 29 Institute Talk ✦ Identities and Migrations in the European Steppe: Comparative Perspectives ✦ Walter Pohl, Professor, University of Vienna May 30 Friends Annual Meeting and Barbecue May 31 Staff Picnic
After Hours Conversations
Juan Maldacena, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, spoke at an After Hours Conversation on what happens when you fall into a black hole.
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The After Hours Conversations program, launched in February 2008 to encourage inter-School conversations in an informal and relaxed environment, continued in 2012–13. Talks were held in Harry’s Bar every Monday and Thursday in October and November and again in February and March. After a ten-minute presentation of a theme or problem of broad significance, there were twenty minutes of lively group discussion, often followed by continuing conversation as people lingered over drinks. The program was organized by a group of four IAS Faculty members, Didier Fassin of the School of Social Science, Patrick Geary of the School of Historical Studies, Helmut Hofer of the School of Mathematics, and Piet Hut of the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies. The program was chaired by Piet Hut, with all four Faculty members taking turns moderating the discussions. Attendance varied from twenty to seventy. There were presentations by Members, Visitors, and Faculty, both active and emeriti, from all four Schools of the Institute and from the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as by Director’s Visitors and Staff. Topics ranged from the use of genetics in historical research to planets around other stars, treatments of brain-injured children, scientific fraud, foundations of mathematics, urban violence, and marriage markets. A webpage (www.ids.ias.edu/after-hours-conversations) provides information on dates, speakers, and topics. The program will continue in 2013–14.
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Artist-in-Residence Derek Bermel (center, playing clarinet) performed with the JACK Quartet and Wiek Hijmans, the Dutch electric guitarist, in the third concert of the season, which featured a new composition by Bermel, A Short History of the Universe (as related by Nima Arkani-Hamed), inspired by the physics lectures of Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences.
Special Programs Program in Interdisciplinary Studies rofessor Piet Hut’s research in astrophysics addressed the need for more universal and transparent data formats. Every area of science now threatens to be overwhelmed by an increasing flood of data, given ever higher computer speeds and the need for larger databases keeping up with those speeds. In order to regulate the necessary data flows better, in the case of N-body simulations, Hut, together with colleagues Will Farr and others, proposed a new data format called PSDF, for Particle Stream Data Format. After publishing their format, and making the software freely available, they have started to use it in their own simulations.
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In other areas of astrophysics, Hut continued his research with Ataru Tanikawa and Jun Makino on the formation of double stars in dense stellar systems. With Douglas Heggie joining them, they greatly improved their search and analysis algorithms, providing the first in-depth “microscopic” analysis of the complete history of the formation of the first hard binary in core collapse of a dense star cluster. Among Hut’s other astrophysics activities were co-organizing the conference MODEST-12 in Kobe, Japan, on multiscale multiphysics simulations of dense stellar systems and joining the Organizing Committee of the International Astronomical Union Commission 7: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. In addition, Hut and George Djorgovski concluded their National Science Foundation–funded five-yearrunning experiment of establishing astrophysical research in three-dimensional online virtual worlds. They, with colleagues from astrophysics and computer science, published their final results in the paper “The Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics: Astrophysics in Virtual Worlds.” As Head of the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at IAS, Hut interacted with a range of visitors in his program, covering areas from literature, philosophy, media, sociology, and political science to biology, chemistry, bioinformatics, mathematics, computer science, and astrophysics.
During the year, Hut continued to lead a series of After Hours Conversations, together with colleagues Nicola Di Cosmo from the School of Historical Studies, Didier Fassin from the School of Social Science, and Helmut Hofer from the School of Mathematics. These conversations were held at IAS in Harry’s Bar two times a week for a period of two months during each semester, and they were widely seen as an effective way to encourage inter-School communication at IAS. In the second semester, Hut started a new series of informal lunch conversations, IPA@IAS, short for Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abiogenesis. Other interdisciplinary activities included the B612 foundation of which Hut is a co-founder. In October 2012, their project Sentinel was official declared technically sound and on track for a 2017 launch, according to an independent review panel. This will be the first privately sponsored space mission aimed at making a more complete inventory of asteroids that may threaten impacts on Earth. Hut also joined the Advisory Board of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation, a division of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. He became a Member of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life and Astrobiology Society and a Member of the International Society for Artificial Life.
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Hut joined a major new interdisciplinary initiative in Japan at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a ten-year running project for which he was asked to be a foreign principle investigator and councilor. Launched at the end of 2012, the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) is focused on the study of the origins and evolution of life on Earth as well as possibly on other planets within the context of geology and astrophysics. Hut was invited to give the opening speech on “big questions” at the first international symposium at ELSI in March 2013. He also was co-organizer of a workshop on the origins of life in June 2013. In order to orient himself further in this field, he attended origins of life conferences at Princeton University, CERN in Geneva, and the Japan Geoscience Union in Tokyo, as well as the workshop “Engines of Life: Thermodynamic Pathways to Metabolism,” at Arizona State University. In addition, he visited the University of California, Davis, to discuss networks and complexity theory, and he met various astrobiologists in the Bay Area.
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Artist-in-Residence Program he Artist-in-Residence program creates a musical presence at the Institute. As the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, the composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel organized the Edward T. Cone Concert Series in 2012–13, as well as a series of Writers Conversations and a concert featuring musicians from the Institute community.
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The Edward T. Cone Concert Series, which is open to the public as well as the Institute community, featured concerts and related talks exploring a spectrum of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century art music. In Across the Continent, Bermel and the pianist Christopher Taylor performed works hailing from countries across Europe, including Witold Lutosławski’s Dance Preludes and Johannes Brahms’s first Clarinet Sonata. In shifted during flight, the sextet eighth blackbird performed a collection of inventive compositions, including work by Bermel, György Ligeti, and Andy Akiho. The JACK Quartet appeared with Bermel and Wiek Hijmans, the Dutch electric guitarist, in the third concert of the season, which featured a new composition by Bermel, A Short History of the Universe (as related by Nima Arkani-Hamed), inspired by the physics lectures of Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. The final concerts presented a staged reading of Golden Motors, a musical centering on a family’s struggle to improve their lives in the shadow of a fictional Detroit auto plant during the early 1980s, sung by the actors Aisha de Haas, Lawrence Clayton, Chuck Cooper, Dan’yelle Williamson, and Okieriete Onaodowan. The collaboration includes book and lyrics by the poet Wendy S. Walters and music by Bermel that draws on gospel, art song, Motown, country, and Broadway.
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In addition to the concert series, Bermel continued to organize a series of Writers Conversations featuring discussions with writers and other artists about the creative process. In the fall, the filmmaker and artist Kevin Jerome Everson spoke about his process of combining scripted, documentary, and formal elements in film. In the spring, choreographer, dancer, and researcher Sheron Wray spoke about and demonstrated a paradigm of performance combining body, voice, technology, and audience participation. In the final conversation, Eric Asimov, chief wine critic of The New York Times, discussed his book How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto. For the second year, Bermel organized a concert of musicians from the Institute community, including Anthony Davis, the spouse of Deva Woodly, Member in the School of Social Science; Christina von Döbeln, the spouse of School of Mathematics Member Anders Södergren; Léo Dubois, the son of Vincent Dubois, Member in the School of Social Science; Zoe Sarnak (who composed the song that she performed with Taylor Noble), the daughter of Peter Sarnak, Professor in the School of Mathematics; and Nigel Smith, Member in the School of Historical Studies, who performed with Noriko Manabe. During the 2012–13 academic year, Bermel also served as Composer-in-Residence at Mannes College The New School for Music; hosted a panel at the prestigious Output electric guitar festival in Amsterdam; performed his clarinet concerto at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; and created an intensive all-scholarship annual workshop and mentoring program for young composers, CULTIVATE, based at Copland House. With Helmut Hofer, Professor in the School of Mathematics, Bermel wrote an article in the Summer 2012 Institute Letter about their collaboration on Orbit Design, a composition inspired by Hofer’s work on symplectic dynamics. Bermel’s four-year term as Artist-in-Residence concluded on June 30, 2013. The composer Sebastian Currier was selected to be the Institute’s next Artist-in-Residence.
Director’s Visitors Director’s Visitors, scholars who work in a variety of fields, including areas not represented in the Schools, contribute much to the vitality of the Institute. They are invited to the Institute for varying periods of time, depending on the nature of their work. Graham Farmelo
During his visit in summer 2012, Farmelo completed the penultimate draft of his book “Churchill’s Bomb,” which will describe Churchill’s development as a nuclear visionary in the 1920s and 30s, his role in developing the bomb, and his relationships with his nuclear scientists and with the presidents who oversaw America’s first nuclear programs. During his stay, Farmelo consulted members of the Faculty and made extensive use of the Institute’s peerless library facilities and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, together with several archives in Washington, D.C.
Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) he IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) is a program of professional development for the mathematics community, including research mathematicians, graduate students, undergraduate students, mathematics education researchers, undergraduate faculty, and school mathematics teachers. Established in 1991 through a grant from the National Science Foundation, PCMI has been an outreach program of the Institute for Advanced Study since 1994.
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The annual Summer Session is the flagship activity of PCMI. Held in Park City, Utah, this three-week, residential institute comPaul Allen, Lewis & Clark College, lecturing in the Undergraduate Summer School bines high-quality lectures and seminars with activities and events designed to foster all-institute interaction. The unique interaction at PCMI creates strong bonds throughout the mathematical community and increases awareness of the roles and the contributions of all professionals in mathematics-based occupations. In addition to the annual Summer Session, PCMI offers year-round professional development outreach activities to summer school mathematics teachers around the nation through the c-TaP Project and through PCMI’s Professional Development and Outreach Groups. Another method of outreach is through the publications offered by PCMI. The Math Forum at Drexel University publishes online the products created by PCMI’s Summer School Teachers Program and the proceedings and briefs authored by PCMI’s International Seminar on Mathematics Education. The Graduate Summer School lectures are collected in their own volumes, the Park City Mathematics Series, published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and targeted at graduate students and research mathematicians. Also published by the AMS is a series of lectures from PCMI’s Undergraduate Summer School.
Summer Session The twenty-third annual Summer Session was held June 30–July 20, 2013, in Park City, Utah, and attracted some 350 participants combined in all programs. The following programs comprised the Summer Session (except as noted, all programs met for the entire three weeks):
The mathematical research topic informs the courses and seminars for the Graduate Summer School, the Research Program, the Undergraduate Summer School, and the Undergraduate Faculty Program; in 2013, the topic was
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“Geometric Analysis.” The topic “Making Mathematical Connections” provided the focus for the three-week School Teachers Program and the one-week program for high school students. Each program met daily for a series of courses and seminars. The programs also met together for Cross-Program Activities three or four days each week.
Graduate Summer School and Research Program The Graduate Summer School and the Research Program in Mathematics were organized by Professors Hubert Bray, Duke University; Greg Galloway, University of Miami; Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University; and Natasa Sesum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This year’s theme, “Geometric Analysis,” is a very broad area of mathematics whose objective is to study geometrically motivated problems using diverse tools from analysis, partial differential equations, physics, topology, and geometry. The Graduate Summer School lecture series, as well as the Research Program’s lectures, reflected this diversity.
Graduate Summer School The Graduate Summer School is designed to provide graduate students with a comprehensive and diverse learning experience that few, if any, could obtain within a single university. Attendance at all lectures was very high and included participants from the Graduate Summer School, the Research Program, the Undergraduate Faculty Program, the Undergraduate Summer School, and even the Summer School Teachers Program. The 2013 Graduate Summer School had nine lecture series (with a total of thirty-six lectures), each on a particular aspect of geometric analysis. Each lecture series consisted of four or five lectures as well as three supplementary sessions where students worked on prepared problems guided by the lecturers’ teaching assistants. The lectures were well-balanced between introductory and advanced research material.
Graduate Summer School Lecture Series 2013 Michael Echmair, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: “On the Isoperimetric Structure of Asymptotically Flat Manifolds” Fernando Marques, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro: “Min-max Theory and the Willmore Conjecture” Tristian Riviere, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: “Weak Immersions of Surfaces with Finite Total Curvature” Igor Rodnianski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Evolution Problem in General Relativity” Peter Topping, Warwick University: “Applications of Hamilton’s Compactness Theorem for Ricci Flow” Jeff Viaclovsky, University of Wisconsin–Madison: “Riemannian Curvature Functionals” Ben Weinkove, University of California, San Diego: “The Kahler-Ricci Flow on Compact Kahler Manifolds” Brian White, Stanford University: “Minimal Submanifolds” Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University: “Global Harmonic Analysis”
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A broad spectrum of highly active researchers in “Geometric Analysis” were recruited for the Research Program. A significant number of researchers stayed for the entire three weeks of the Summer Session. TODD ROYAL HICKEN
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The Research Program in Mathematics
Participants of the International Seminar on Mathematics Education
The main formal activity of the Research Program consisted of nine hours of research talks each week. The speakers took into account the diversity of the audience and carefully explained the background and motivation for their work as well as their recent results. Informal activity was also
extensive; small groups gathered for conversations wherever they could find space. Many of these conversations have already developed into new collaborations.
Through the generous support of the Clay Mathematics Institute, PCMI is able to nominate two Senior Scholars-in-Residence for each Summer Session. The Scholars are nominated from among the international leadership in the research topic, and and they are required to be in residence at PCMI for the entire three weeks as part of the Research Program and to give a public all-institute lecture while at PCMI. Working on mathematics in the Summer School Teachers Program The 2013 Clay Scholars at PCMI were Gerhard Huisken, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Richard Schoen, Stanford University. Both Scholars were active participants of the Research Program and Graduate Summer School, and both took the time to hold informal discussion sessions with the school mathematics teachers and the undergraduate students at PCMI.
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Summer School Teachers Program The Summer School Teachers Program (SSTP) of 2013 attracted sixty-four teachers from all levels. The participants followed an intense daily schedule that included learning mathematics, reflecting on the practice of teaching mathematics in today’s classrooms, and working together in groups to create products to be shared with their colleagues. Participants took part daily in a two-hour mathematics problem-solving course; this year’s course was entitled “Probability, Randomization, and Polynomials.” The materials for the mathematics problem-solving courses were created by a team led by Al Cuoco and Bowen Kerins from the Educational Development Center (EDC); instructors for the course were Darryl Yong from Harvey Mudd College and Kerins, a mathematics educator from EDC and a former math teacher. In the daily “Reflecting on Practice” session, participants considered research related to teaching and learning mathematics with a particular focus on questioning and how it impacts instruction. The discussion was grounded in the research literature as participants worked collaboratively to better understand why questions are an important component of instruction and how they can use questioning in their own classrooms to promote student understanding. A staff of six teacher-leaders designed and led the sessions under the guidance and supervision of the SSTP leadership team. Videos of classrooms from the United States and other countries, transcripts, research findings, articles, assessment results, and student work were used to prompt an analysis of effective questioning and how it can be enacted in classrooms.
The c-TaP Project Since 2011, the Summer School Teachers Program of PCMI has been engaged in a concerted effort to attain a position of national reputation and influence in the professional development of school mathematics teachers. This initiative began with an extended consultation in the summer of 2011 with fourteen of the major national mathematics teaching constituencies, groups spanning a spectrum that included the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the American Federation of Teachers, and the U.S. Department of Education.
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Each afternoon the participants took part in one of several working groups established by the c-TaP Project (see below). Within these groups, participants discussed and wrote professional development modules for teachers to be used in the c-TaP workshops at all levels of school mathematics: elementary, middle school, and high school. In addition, two of the SSTP’s traditional working groups were maintained from prior years: the Lesson Study group and the group that takes part in the mathematics course of the Undergraduate Faculty Program. These last two groups also met daily in the afternoons to focus on preparing classroom activities in keeping with their chosen mathematical themes.
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The premise on which all of these groups agreed was the increased professionalization of teachers of mathematics, based on high-quality mathematical and pedagogical norms, together with the additional premise that those mathematical and pedagogical norms be generated in partnership with teachers themselves, supported by mathematicians, mathematics educators, and other governmental and private entities. The advent of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) and their adoption by forty-five of the fifty states provides a historic opportunity to raise the status of mathematics teaching and mathematics teachers, grounded in quality of content and presentation. As a result of these consultations, ten of the above-mentioned fourteen constituencies formed an ad hoc committee called the Committee on Teachers as Professionals, or c-TaP for short, dedicated to supporting teacher-led design and delivery of (teacher-to-teacher) professional development centered around authentic implementation of the CCSSM. With initial funding from Math for America, c-TaP utilizes PCMI’s Summer School Teachers Program and the Institute for Mathematics and Education as its base, giving mathematics teacher-leaders the opportunity to develop and adapt CCSSM-implementation materials for their colleagues. (The Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona is headed by Bill McCallum, chair of the CCSSM writing group.) Teams of teacher-leaders then take these materials on the road, offering professional development workshops for their colleagues around the United States. In the last eighteen months, over thirty such c-TaP teacher-to-teacher workshops have been given, entirely financed by the local venue requesting the particular workshop. More recently, wider groups of teachers, comprising not only the entire SSTP teacher cohort but also networks of teachers who were reached through the c-TaP workshops, are gradually beginning to comprise a professional community of teachers of mathematics.
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Other Connected Programs A high school student Math Camp was a pilot feature at PCMI in 2012 and was held again in 2013. Organized by Troy Jones, a teacher from Westlake High School in Alpine, Utah, with funding from IM Flash Technologies, the program enabled sixteen high school students to attend PCMI during the second week. The students, chaperoned by a subset of parents, worked in their own classroom on the same mathematical problem sets as the SSTP participants in the morning and had a series of afternoon speakers from nearby universities, industries, or from other PCMI programs. They also attended and took part in the cross-program activities (e.g., Clay Mathematics Institute lectures, pizza and problemsolving session) and attended the SSTP sessions held in late afternoon or evening (e.g., origami building). In addition to their own class work and homework, the students functioned as the laboratory for the first teaching done by the SSTP’s Lesson Study working group. They also managed to complete two weeks of the mathematics course during their morning sessions and were actually able to join the SSTP participants in the mathematics course on their last day at PCMI.
Rafe Mazzeo of Stanford University (center), one of the organizers of the PCMI Graduate Summer School and the Research Program, talks with two researchers in the program.
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Distance Learning In addition to the SSTP taking place in Park City, eleven teachers from Las Cruces, New Mexico, funded through a National Science Foundation grant, took part each day in real time via electronic “e-tables,” i.e., distance learning with real-time screen images and interaction between the two sites. The New Mexico e-tables were organized by Susana Salamanca, a mathematician at New Mexico State University, and facilitated by Rina Martinez, a past SSTP participant, with Soledad Gonzales and Robyn Perkins, all three middle school teachers.
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Participants of the Graduate Summer School working together during a problem-solving session
Undergraduate Faculty Program For faculty members whose main focus is teaching undergraduate students, the Undergraduate Faculty Program (UFP) at PCMI offers the opportunity to renew excitement about mathematics, talk with peers about new teaching approaches, address some challenging research questions, and interact with the broader mathematical community. The UFP is unique in that it bridges the educational and research objectives of PCMI. There were fourteen participants. Their backgrounds in geometric analysis (this year’s research theme for PCMI) varied tremendously. This year’s UFP instructor was Professor Justin Corvino of Lafayette College. The group met three times a day, attending lectures on the foundations of differential geometry and the links between differential geometry and relativity theory. Each afternoon, the group met to discuss teaching and research projects. During the last week, the participants themselves prepared and gave lectures not just about mathematics but also about pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom.
Undergraduate Summer School Some thirty-five undergraduate students took part in PCMI’s 2013 Undergraduate Summer School. PCMI offers two distinct courses for undergraduates, one introductory and one advanced, with students self-selecting into either or both. I AS / P C M I
The introductory course, by Iva Stavrov of Lewis & Clark College, was titled “Curvature of Space and Time.” Motivated by examples from general relativity, she developed the topics from differential geometry necessary to define, compute, understand (visualize), and apply the curvature tensor. Paul Allen, also of Lewis & Clark College, offered the advanced course, “Geometric Differential Equations.” Also motivated by problems in relativity and the interplay between analysis and geometry, he took a more bottom-up approach and developed the notions from the calculus of variations and functional analysis needed to build a variational setting for partial differential equations (in particular, waves) in which the equations could be derived and shown to have solutions with sufficient regularity.
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Stavrov and Allen, though focused on distinct regions of the field, worked carefully to draw connections to one another’s perspectives and lectures. They were also regular participants in the PCMI Graduate Summer School and so were able to support many of the topics addressed in the graduate lectures. This was especially important for the one-third of their class comprised of postbaccalaureate students and the participants from the Undergraduate Faculty Program.
SSTP participants at the PCMI Summer Session
Workshop for Mentors of Undergraduate Mathematics Research by Minority Students (WfM)
In its second year of funding from the National Science Foundation, the Workshop for Mentors of Undergraduate Mathematics Research by Minority Students (WfM) was held at PCMI July 8–13, 2013. Organized and conducted by Steven Cox, Rice University, and Dennis Davenport, Howard University, the workshop attracted some twenty-three applicants from a variety of institutions, some of which specifically serve minorities. Ten participants were selected to take part in the workshop, whose focus was to enable more mentors to successfully engage their minority undergraduate students in mathematical research. The stated goals of the workshop were: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
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construct or select exciting undergraduate-tractable research problems, transform their mentees into confident speakers and writers of mathematics, acquire group-building skills and so create communities of scholars, design and/or augment curricula for academic and/or summer research, and construct competitive proposals to fund and sustain the above activities.
The WfM program met for three to four hours each day and was joined by the Undergraduate Faculty Program on three occasions for a joint session. The content sessions served to inform the younger participants and to anchor the daily discussion periods.
Cross-Program Activities
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In order to bring together the entire PCMI community during the three weeks of the annual Summer Session, many cross-program activities were held. Some were organized informally by the participants, and some were organized more formally by PCMI.
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The Opening Socials Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Gerhard Huisken, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Richard Schoen, Stanford University The PCMI Opening Dinner The Annual Park City Fourth of July Parade Entry by PCMI PCMI World Cup Soccer Match Discussion Forum: Conversations between Undergraduate Faculty and Summer School Teachers Origami Construction Sessions Pizza and Problem-Solving Session, presented by Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College Mathematical Modeling with George Hart Ice Cream Social, hosted by the participants of the SSTP The Director’s Hike The PCMI Closing Dinner
Publications PCMI publishes lectures and proceedings from each Summer Session as follows: Published by the American Mathematical Society, the Park City Mathematics Series comprises nearly all of the lectures ever given in PCMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Graduate Summer School, from 1991 to 2011 thus far. The series now comprises twenty volumes, all of which are currently in print and available for sale. Also published are seven volumes in the Park City Mathematics Institute Subseries, a subsection of the AMS Student Mathematics Series. These volumes are aimed at undergraduate students and each is written by a lecturer from the Undergraduate Summer School of PCMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Session. The Summer School Teachers Program will be publishing its mathematical materials with the American Mathematical Society in a new, stand-alone AMS series targeted for the professional development of in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and mathematics educators. The proceedings and briefs of the International Seminar on Mathematics Education are published on the PCMI website.
Funding The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute was made possible by the generosity of the following funders: Clay Mathematics Institute Mrs. Rosanna Jaffin Math for America Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Ambrose Monell Foundation National Science Foundation National Security Agency Appreciation is extended for the in-kind contributions of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah.
IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute Governance and Management PCMI Oversight Board CHAIR: Phillip Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study Deborah Ball, University of Michigan Hyman Bass, University of Michigan Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Advanced Study John Ewing, Math for America Ronald Graham, University of California, San Diego Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study Elaine Wolfensohn, Wolfensohn Family Foundation
PCMI Diversity Sub-Committee CHAIR: Dennis Davenport, Howard University Erika Camacho, Arizona State University Duane Cooper, Morehouse College Edray Goins, Purdue University Leona Harris, The College of New Jersey Robert Megginson, University of Michigan Janis Oldham, North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University Robin Wilson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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PCMI Steering Committee 2013 DIRECTOR: Richard Hain, Duke University Hubert Bray, Duke University Gail Burrill, Michigan State University Steve Cox, Rice University Dennis Davenport, Howard University Greg Galloway, University of Miami Thomas Garrity, Williams College Carol Hattan, Skyview High School, Vancouver, WA Helmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced Study James King, University of Washington Johnny Lott, University of Mississippi Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University John Polking, Rice University Natasa Sesum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Ronald Stern, University of California, Irvine Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
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Science Initiative Group (SIG) he Science Initiative Group (SIG) has fostered science in developing countries since it became an lAS outreach program in 1999. For the past six years, SIG has focused on the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE). With funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York, RISE supports five university-based research and training networks in science and engineering in sub-Saharan Africa. While SIG plays an advisory and developmental role, the African networks have substantial autonomy with respect to academic content and policy, budget allocation, and internal administration.
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Since the program began, RISE students have earned seventeen Ph.D.s and twenty-eight master’s degrees, and three have completed postdocs. Forty-four women and ninety-one men from fifteen African nations have benefited directly from participation in RISE. A distinctive feature of the RISE experience is how closely the students’ careers and lives are intertwined with political and social issues outside the laboratory. Many have adapted their work to the challenges of modern Africa, ranging from the distortions of war to the demands of public policy. The following stories are presented in full at http://sig.ias.edu/rise.
The Upsets of War The scientific journey of Alain Mufala, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, shows how the roadblocks, delays, and dangers of war can jeopardize the scientific careers of even the most talented and persistent African scientists. Since earning a B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Lubumbashi in 2000, he struggled for more than a decade before chancing upon an opening in the RISE program in Namibia. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in chemical engineering, working on a new ion-exchange membrane for hydrogen fuel cells, but he continues to live as a scientist without a country. Venancio Taimo was born in Mozambique in 1976, between the decade-long war of independence and fifteen years of civil war. When peace came, he enrolled at Eduardo Mondlane University and vowed to help rebuild his country, choosing the goal of safe drinking water. But he found few resources for his studies. Water movements were unknown, and borehole data had never been analyzed. He found RISE, and its network structure allowed him to send samples to South Africa for analysis, to consult with RISE faculty, and to use advanced software.
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Godwil Madamombe, a native of Zimbabwe, began his career as a plant pathologist. After completing his master’s degree, he was offered a job with the Tea Research Foundation of Central Africa (TRFCA). He learned that the industry was plagued by a shortage of labor. Both Zimbabwe and Malawi had long benefited from cheap refugee labor from Mozambique during the civil war, but after the war these laborers returned home, and tea
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growers were forced to mechanize. The machines gave lower yields and Madamombe was asked to discover why. The easy answers of nonselective picking and random damage gave way to complex horticultural questions. Through the TRFCA he joined RISE and gained access to advanced research facilities and expert researchers who helped him with the complex biochemistry and instrumentation he needed.
Politics and Policy Laboratory research may have enormous social value—if society chooses to use it. Nelson Odume, a Nigerian who enrolled at Rhodes University in 2009 through RISE, studies the use of insects and other organisms as indicators of water quality. He learned that even slight changes in the mouthparts of certain insects were caused by heavy metal pollutants in the nearby Swartskop River. He has since developed effective water-quality indexes and, with his supervisor, proposed their use to strengthen new laws regulating water quality in South Africa. Thus his laboratory work has led to results of great potential importance to policy. Similarly Paul Mensah, born in Ghana, had long dreamed of using his biological training to protect the environment. When searching for a worthy research project at Rhodes University, he learned that no one had done local studies of the herbicide Roundup, which is sprayed liberally throughout the country. Working closely with the local Department of Water Affairs, he tested Roundup against Caridina nilotica, a common freshwater shrimp, and eight other organisms, and suggested safe usage amounts that would minimize impacts on nontarget freshwater organisms. When one of Mensah’s supervisors moved to a company that provides water services to municipalities, he gained an additional connection to the larger world of public policy. For Gaolathe Tsheboeng, a native of Botswana, botanical studies of plants in the Okavango Delta have importance beyond academia. The ecological richness of the Delta, he has found, depends on regular pulses of flood water from Angola. However, the countries bordering the Okavango—Namibia, Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—continually jockey for water rights, and a constant worry is the danger of large dams or diversions that would jeopardize the rich Delta ecosystem. Hence Tsheboeng and his colleagues must educate the public about the importance of the flooding.
Further information about SIG and RISE is available at http://sig.ias.edu and twitter.com/SIGatIAS. SIG Board (as of June 30, 2013) Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics, and Past Director, Institute for Advanced Study (Chair) Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science; Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Mohamed H. A. Hassan, Past Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Khartoum, Sudan J. Tomas Hexner, Development Consultant, Cambridge, Massachusetts Jacob Palis, Director Emeritus and Professor, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro; Immediate Past President, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
C. N. R. Rao, Honorary President and Linus Pauling Research Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India; Past President, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Chung W. Kim, Seoul, South Korea (Emeritus)
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Raphael Tshimanga, too, has moved from the laboratory to the world of policy. Having grown up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he wanted to understand the hydrology of the mighty Congo River. He earned a Ph.D. through RISE and has returned home to the University of Kinshasa, where he is both a lecturer and the “man in the hot seat” for difficult water-resource questions. With development, his country will need more water for growth, and neighboring countries clamor for a share as well. “The future of the Congo basin is unknown,” said Tshimanga. “People don’t want to wait for the science, they just want to go ahead with the planning. But what is planning without science?”
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Acknowledgments The Institute for Advanced Study is indebted to its Founders and to all of its subsequent benefactors for providing a strong financial foundation from which to pursue its mission of fundamental research in the sciences and humanities without pressure for immediate results. We are deeply grateful to the Simons Foundation and the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences for their $100 million challenge grant, the largest gift to the Institute since those made by its Founders, Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. This challenge grant serves as the basis for the $200 million Campaign for the Institute, intended to strengthen its position for future generations of scholars and scientists.
Centennial Council (through June 30, 2013)
We especially wish to recognize members of the Centennial Council, whose level of annual support or lifetime giving places them among our most generous individual donors. Anonymous (2) Jeffrey P. Bezos Mr.+ and Mrs. Richard B. Black Addie and Harold Broitman Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders Brown Helen and Martin+ Chooljian Neil Chriss+ and Natasha Herron Chriss Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.,+ and Annette L. Nazareth Robert+ and Luisa Fernholz Mr. John S. Hendricks+ and Mrs. Maureen D. Hendricks
Immanuel†+ and Vera Kohn Dr.+ and Mrs. Spiro Latsis Sarah and Martin+ L. Leibowitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Loughlin Nancy+ and Duncan MacMillan David F. Marquardt+ Hamish Maxwell+ Robert B. Menschel Annette Merle-Smith Nancy B. Peretsman+ and Robert W. Scully Elena Petronio
David M. Rubenstein+ Eric+ and Wendy Schmidt James+ and Marilyn Simons Dr.+ and Mrs. Charles Simonyi Dr. Lee Seng Tee Mr.+ and Mrs. Ladislaus von Hoffmann Shelby White+ James+ and Elaine Wolfensohn + Current †
Institute for Advanced Study Trustee or Trustee Emeritus Deceased
Campaign for the Institute All gifts, grants, and pledges of capital and operating support made by individuals, foundations, and corporations for the Institute’s core activities are counted on a dollar-for-dollar basis against the $100 million Simons and Simonyi Challenge, and help the Institute meet its $200 million goal. Major Donors to the Campaign for the Institute
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Anonymous (2) American Council of Learned Societies Rita Allen Foundation The Birkelund Fund Victoria and Hank Bjorklund Susan and Jim Blair Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders Brown Helen and Martin Chooljian Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Harry and Helen Cohen Charitable Foundation The Edward T. Cone Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Robbert Dijkgraaf and Pia de Jong Fernholz Foundation Fowler Merle-Smith Family Charitable Lead Trust Tina and Bill Greenberg Sigurdur Helgason Mr. John S. Hendricks and Mrs. Maureen D. Hendricks Gerda Henkel Stiftung Bob and Lynn Johnston John J. and Nora Wren Kerr Immanuel† and Vera Kohn George Labalme, Jr. Sarah and Martin L. Leibowitz
Leon Levy Foundation David F. Marquardt The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Ambrose Monell Foundation The New York Community Trust, Maxwell Family Fund Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on behalf of Pierre Deligne
Novartis International AG John Rassweiler The Rockefeller Foundation David M. Rubenstein Eric and Wendy Schmidt The Scully Peretsman Foundation †
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Harold T. and Vivian Shapiro Simons Foundation The Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Dr. Lee Seng Tee Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Marina and Robert Whitman Wolfensohn Family Foundation Mr. Brian F. Wruble and Ms. Kathleen W. Bratton Steve and Diane Zipperstein The Institute is also grateful to the following organizations for their generous support of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE), and the Opportunity Equation (OE).
Amgen Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York JPMorgan Chase Foundation Rosanna W. Jaffin Math for America National Science Foundation National Security Agency Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Other Donors to the Campaign for the Institute
The following donors made gifts or pledges to the Friends Endowment.
The following donors made gifts or pledges to the Artist-in-Residence Endowment. Anonymous (5) Rita Z. Asch
The following donors made gifts or pledges to other endowment funds. Anonymous Dr. Marc Bezem Harold and Catherine Falk Peter R. Kann Helene L. Kaplan Plamen Krastev Professor Juan Maldacena Eugene R. Speer Peter Svennilson Drs. Marilyn and Scott Tremaine Shelby White Patricia K. Woolf The following donors made gifts or grants of operating support to the Institute. Helen and Peter Aczel Dr. Ken Baron David Bonderman
Robert Ettl Aristides W. Georgantas Mikhail Grinberg James F. Hawkins John and Maureen Hendricks Charitable Foundation Matthew C. Kramer Dr. Jacob D. Leshno George Losoncy Dr. Salvatore A. Monaco The Pew Charitable Trusts Marissa and Jesse Treu Two Sigma Investments, LLC Dr. Gregory Valiant Dr. Debra Yu Gifts in Honor or Memory of Members of the IAS Community
The following donors made gifts to the Hans Kohn Membership Endowment in memory of Immanuel Kohn,Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study 1997â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2006, Emeritus 2006â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13. James S. Altschul and Marylin Bender Altschul John Birkelund Melanie and John Clarke Ms. Diane Comite Mrs. Joseph P. Conway Les Duffy Joan and Michael Frankel Karen and Ira Fuchs Ciro A. Gamboni Lor and Michael Gehret Ellen W. Goldstine Mr. Thomas J. Kavaler Russell and Helene Kulsrud Sarah and Martin L. Leibowitz Jackie and Cy Meisel Annette Merle-Smith Princeton University Concerts Mr. H. Richard Schumacher John Schuster SeaBridge Investment Advisors, LLC Shaw Festival Theatre Madlen Simon Richard Stieglitz Mrs. Brenda Wislar Gifts in memory of Oleg Grabar Celia Chazelle Charles W. Haxthausen Alford T. Welch
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Donald and Shari Black Susannah S.B.D.C. Coleman Catherine G. Fleming Tina and Bill Greenberg Pamela and Brian Hughes Landon and Sarah Jones Steven and Florence Kahn John J. and Nora Wren Kerr John and Ann McGoldrick John Rassweiler Carolyn and George Sanderson Steve and Diane Zipperstein
Roberta Batorsky Marcia E. Bossart Anthony Brickman Moshe Budmor Frederick Cantor Michael Diener Barbara Essig John Frederick William Garrett Nancy P. Geiger Atherlie K. Gidding Patricia Graham Rachel D. Gray James Haba Gary Irvine Emma Jaffee Eugene Kerner Beverly Kestenis Ronald E. Kraemer Peter Lindenfeld Joyce Orenstein Tari Pantaleo and Douglas Miller Robert S. Pollack Amy Ramsey Reichelderfer-Blair Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Morris S. Rubenfeld George Ryva Judith Singleton Bruce G. Smith Elly Stein Louis P. Torre David P. Witham
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Gifts in Honor or Memory of Members of the IAS Community (continued)
Yuval Flicker in memory of Moshe and Ester Zamek
Tina and Bill Greenberg in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Knafel
Gifts in memory of Albert O. Hirschman James S. Amelang Jeffrey Prager and Debora Leah Silverman Reva Wolf
Vartan Gregorian in honor of Robbert Dijkgraaf
Martin Karel in memory of Armand Borel in honor of John Bahcall
Denise Kim and Rob Kusner
Anonymous
George Labalme, Jr.
Diane Cole Ahl in honor of Irving Lavin
Fernande Auslander in memory of Louis Auslander
John Birkelund in honor of Immanuel Kohn
David Blank in honor of Heinrich von Staden
Carnegie Corporation of New York in honor of Robbert Dijkgraaf
Dr. Eugene A. Carroll in honor of Irving Lavin and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Heng-Huat Chan in memory of Atle Selberg
in memory of David B. Kusner in memory of Felix Gilbert
Henry J. Landau and Julia Landau in memory of Harry Woolf
Sanford Levinson in honor of Michael Walzer
Edward Muir in memory of Felix Gilbert
Dietrich C. Neumann in honor of Guenter Neumann
Mrs. Reba K. Orszag in memory of Steven A. Orszag
Patricia O’Toole in honor of Peter Goddard
Jeffrey Prager and Debora Leah Silverman in memory of Clifford Geertz
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Michael Ralph
in honor of Giles Constable
Peter W. Riola
Xiaomei Liu and Kequan Ding in honor of Richard Stanley
in memory of Edward T. Cline, Jr.
Haijan Wang in memory of Cha Chi Ming
Howard D. Weinbrot in memory of George F. Kennan
Edna Wigderson in honor of IAS Computing
Plamen Krastev
Other gifts in honor of or memory of members of the IAS community in memory of Clifford Geertz
Holly A. Van Auken
in memory of Michael-Rolph Trouillot in memory of Martha Stacy Riola
Kai Man Tsang
Other Support
The following organizations, agencies, and institutions provided grants or sub-awards of operating support. California Institute of Technology Computing Research Association Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Mills College National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Endowment for the Humanities National Science Foundation National Security Agency Princeton University Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory Space Telescope Science Institute U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation United States Department of Energy West Virginia University Research Corporation
in memory of Atle Selberg
Friends of the Institute Our sincere gratitude is extended to the Friends of the Institute, whose unrestricted gifts make a great difference. We welcome new Friends and express particular appreciation to members of the Founders’, Chairman’s, Director’s, and 25th Anniversary Circles.
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Helen and Martin Chooljian Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Rosanna W. Jaffin Louise and John Steffens
MJS Foundation Inc. John and Caroline Pallat Elena Petronio John Rassweiler Philip W. Riskin Charitable Foundation Inc.
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Director’s Circle
Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders Brown Morton and Donna Collins Arthur and Janet Eschenlauer John J. and Nora Wren Kerr Immanuel† and Vera Kohn Nancy and Duncan MacMillan Annette Merle-Smith
Melanie and John Clarke Pierre Deligne and Elena Alexeeva Antonio Elmaleh and Anne Williams Debora Russo Haines, Esq., and John R. Haines Thomas and Archer Harvey Cynthia and Robert Hillas
Bob and Lynn Johnston Landon and Sarah Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Loughlin Deborah R. Lunder and Dr. Alan Ezekowitz Elinor Lunder Jane and Robert MacLennan Charles W. McCutchen John and Ann McGoldrick Michael and Pamela Morandi Harold T. and Vivian Shapiro Nancy and James Utaski Mr. and Mrs. Luke Visconti Louise and John Wellemeyer
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Georg and Joyce Albers-Schonberg Elizabeth Harkins Baughan The Len and Laura Berlik Foundation, Inc. Helena and Peter Bienstock Donald and Shari Black Addie and Harold Broitman Audrey and David Egger Dana and Janet Fearon
Friends
David H. Fulmer, M.D. and Carol Ann Fulmer Thomas and Peggy Fulmer Julia Penick Garry* Dr. and Mrs. Steve Gecha Robert and Evelyn Geddes Aristides W. Georgantas Ann and Lee Gladden Richard and Eileen Glanton* Mark and Kara Glasgold* Chad Goerner* Fred and Selma Goldstein Thomas M. Gorrie, Ph.D. B.F. Graham and Ted Meth Dr. and Mrs. Milton H. Grannatt* Julian Grant and Peter Lighte Rachel D. Gray Nadivah and David Greenberg Kara L. Haas, M.D. and Preston M. Dunnmon, M.D.* Peter and Christine Hagan Drs. Suzanne and Ino Halegoua Joan and Jack Hall Randy Harris and Barbara Sloan Norman R. Harvey Dr. and Mrs. John A. Heim* Dr. Lucille Heller H. James and Carol P. Herring Jamie and Kathy Herring* Jonathan and Anna Horner Zaki and Liz Hosny Pamela and Brian Hughes Brandon and Lynette Hull Wolf Joffe Joyce and Marc Johnson* Robert Wood Johnson, Jr., Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Alexander Jones and Catherine Haines Lawrence and Deborah Jordan* Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Kalmbach* Allen and Arianne Kassof Howard and Helen Keller Quentin and Peggy Kelly Nancy Lee Kern Avedis and Laura Khachadurian*
J.A. Padhoven Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Sanderson Family Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Sigal Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Fritz Stern Fund II of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Jennifer Wolffert and Bijan Ardehali* Steve and Diane Zipperstein
Ludwig and Paula Koerte* Gail Kohn Ugur and Ayse Koyluoglu Samuel and Casey Lambert Jonah T. and Amy B. Lansky* Perry Leavell and Barbara Oberg* Dr. Karen Leibowitz Richard J. and Neil Ann S. Levine Maxine A. and Fraser Lewis Walter H. Lippincott Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Lutz Roland and Pamela Machold Jerry and Kathleen Mandzij* Professor James Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose William C. Martin Cecilia and Michael Mathews Dr. and Mrs. James F. Mathis Mr. and Mrs. James R. McKinney* James and Margaret McLaughlin Hella and Scott McVay* Christopher and Andrea Mecray* Dorothy and John Meggitt* Jennifer Mermans Meg Brinster Michael Prof. Richard Miles and Dr. Susan McCoy Dr. Salvatore A. Monaco* Dorothy and Lloyd Moote Mr. Stephen J. Moseley and Dr. Whitney B. Ross Caroline and Roger Moseley* Alexander Moskwa, Jr., M.D. and Elaine Elliot-Moskwa, Ph.D.* Sean and Hilary Murray* Rosemary O’Brien Dr. Ferris Olin Bill and Mary O’Shaughnessy Dr. and Mrs. C. Papastephanou Jean and Larry Parsons John and Dee Patberg Mrs. John A. Pell Woody and Jacquie Phares †
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Susan G. Anable and John F. McCarthy III Ernest and Geneva Anastasio* Prof. Stephen Anderson and Ms. Clara F. Richardson* Anonymous Mr. Robert J. Aresty Dr. and Mrs. David Atkin Joan Bartl, Anne Breslin Leigh and John Bartlett Leonard E. Baum Robert A. and Susan M. Beckman Vicky and Dick Bergman* Patrick Bernuth and Michelle McKenna Toni Besselaar* Mihir and Sheema Bhattacharya Elisabeth A. Bish Mark and Sally Branon* Georgianna Brennan Bromley Family Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Mrs. James Burke Pernilla and James Burke Cedar Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Lena Chang, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Chew Lucinda and Charles Clark Mr. Elliot Cohen Victoria and Brad Corrodi Michael Curtis and Judith Brodsky Eliot and Patti Daley Jan and Elly de Boer Rysia de Ravel Hans and Katja De Ruyter Katherine and Robert Del Tufo James and Thalia Deneen Marlene Doyle and Aiden J. Doyle Mary Emerson Ruth Fath Carl and Toby Feinberg Dr. and Mrs. Jerome K. Freedman Glenn and Ann Fries Karen and Ira Fuchs*
Robert and Luisa Fernholz Emily and Johan Firmenich Lor and Michael Gehret Colleen A. Goggins Tina and Bill Greenberg Cynthia Groya and Tilden Reeder Mr. Dana A. Hamel Steven and Florence Kahn Russell and Helene Kulsrud Jackie and Cy Meisel
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C. Mark Pirrung George Pitcher Dorothy and Charles Plohn, Jr. Steven and Jessica Pollard* Anoop and Sangeeta Prasad* Amy and Schaefer Price David Rago and Suzanne Perrault Michael and Melanie Rauch Reichelderfer-Blair Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Millard McAdoo Riggs, Jr. Charles Rippin* Richard and Meta Robertson* Kermit and Priscilla Roosevelt Parish and Dudley Ryan Bernard and Ingrid Saint-Donat Jeri and Scott Schaefer* John P. Schmidt Eduardo and Anne Marie Schur Lauren and Boot Seem* Mr. and Mrs. Dinesh Sharma* Jenny and Panna Sharma* Josh and Mariah Silva Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell and Marisa Simon Bob and Margaret Slighton David E. Smith Inge and Sundaresa Srinivasan* Ellen and Albert Stark Foundation Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Caren Sturges Dr. Jana Sukkarieh Alexandra Tatnall Thomas Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation* Marissa and Jesse Treu Gail and Richard Ullman Beth Van Hoeven Taysen Van Itallie and Jane Scott Erik Vanmarcke and Marilyn Durkee Martha and George Vaughn Jay and Harriet Vawter Bruno and Rosemary Walmsley* Theodora and Fong Wei Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Charles F. Westoff and Jane S. DeLung Philip and Elizabeth Wey Laura and Roscoe White Sharon and Russ White Ralph R. Widner Susan N. Wilson Mary and Joe Wisnovsky Evan and Rosalie Wolarsky Masaaki and JoAnn Yamada Martin and JoanMarie Zetterberg* * New
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Contributions to Friends
Barbara Chancellor Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen William and Judith Scheide Caroline and Helmut Weymar Matching Gifts to Friends
Exxon-Mobil Foundation Goldman Sachs & Co. Matching Gift Program
Current and Former Members and Visitors We are grateful to our Faculty and Faculty Emeriti and current and former Members, Visitors, and Research Assistants for their valuable financial support. Oppenheimer Circle
June W. Allison and Stephen V. Tracy Anonymous Anonymous in memory of Clifford Geertz
Christian Borgs John Breit and Fanette Pollack Prof. Sir David Cannadine Sun-Yung A. Chang and Paul C. Yang Jennifer Chayes Stanley and Regine Corngold Raffaella Cribiore A. J. Hildebrand Christopher P. Jones Denise Kim and Rob Kusner in memory of David B. Kusner
Henry J. Landau and Julia Landau in memory of Harry Woolf
Fouad J. Masrieh Reba K. Orzag Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund in memory of Steven A. Orszag
John Polking, Ph.D. Professor Franรงois Rigolot Marcel Roethlisberger Joseph A. Sgro Dr. Eugene Sorets Thomas and Bridget Spencer Loring W. Tu Charitable Gift Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Dr. Armand Wyler Eduard Zehnder Zhou Zou Aydelotte Circle
Anonymous (2) Fernande Auslander in memory of Louis Auslander
The Blunt Trust Harold and Kathleen Drake
Dr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) Fischer Dr. Oscar W. Greenberg Richard V. Kadison Professor Joshua Katz Dr. and Mrs. John Ying-Kuen Kwan Detlef and Katharina Liebs Mr. and Mrs. James R. McCredie Dr. Yasuo Morita Karl and Anne Morrison Giorgio Ponzano Francesca Rochberg Paul Rorem and Kate Skrebutenas Tsuneo Tamagawa Laurence Taylor Dr. John H. Walter Flexner Circle
Helen and Peter Aczel Stephen L. Adler Anonymous (2) Robert A. Beckman The Joan and Joseph Birman Foundation David Bjelajac Alan C. and Pamela Bowen Calabi Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Jim and Nancy Cantrell Chaitin Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable Fund Charles W. Curtis Professor Peter L. Duren Professor Sara F. Ellison and Professor Glenn D. Ellison Murray Gerstenhaber Kristen Ghodsee Naomi and George Gorse Prof. A. Graeser Bernard Grossman Ph.D. Thomas Hegghammer Ron and Gail Irving Mikhail Kogan John R. Melville-Jones Gerard Misiolek Maria Teresa Marabini Moevs Knut W. Nรถrr Andrew P. Ogg Karla Pollmann Professor Drazen Prelec and Professor Danica Mijovic-Prelec Mamadou Sango Lyman Tower Sargent Freydoon Shahidi Professor Israel Michael Sigal Debora Silverman and Jeffrey Prager in memory of Clifford Geertz and Albert and Sarah Hirschman
Ronald and Sharon Stern Siep Stuurman Barry and Winnifred Sullivan Chuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. Palais
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David Blank in honor of Heinrich von Staden
Mary Lee Townsend Family Trust Karen Uhlenbeck and Bob Williams Vijay K. Vadakkekurputh on behalf of V.K. Balachandran
Holly A. Van Auken in memory of Edward T. Cline Jr.
Haijian Wang in honor of Mr. CHA Chi Ming
Howard D. Weinbrot in memory of George F. Kennan
Professor Hung-Hsi Wu Donors
William Abikoff Ken Ahl and Diane Cole Ahl in honor of Irving Lavin
Changhyun Ahn Peter Albers James S. Amelang in memory of Albert O. Hirschman
Susan Ames Robert G.W. Anderson Nathanael Andrade Anonymous (56) David Anthony and Dorcas Brown Bulent Atalay Dr. Mickey Atwal Giles Auchmuty Professor Nils A. Baas Professor Han N. Baltussen Boaz Barak José Barros Neto Professor Itzhak Bars Keith H. Basso Steve Batterson Paul F. Baum on behalf of Ravi Rao
in honor of Christian Habicht
J. Christoph Bürgel Daniela Caglioti Dr. Yves C. R. Capdeboscq Sylvain Edward Cappell Emanuel and Vanessa Carneiro Vicki Caron Dr. Eugene A. Carroll in honor of Irving Lavin
Dr. Eugene A. Carroll in honor of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
William Casselman Jessica Cattelino Dr. John W. Chambers Heng Huat Chan in memory of Atle Selberg
H. F. Chau Celia Chazelle in memory of Oleg Grabar
Dr. Weimin Chen T.P. Cheng Professor R. Sekhar Chivukula Sun-Chin Chu Alev Cinar Anne L. Clark Joan Breton Connelly Serena Connolly Harold J. Cook Gene Cooper Drs. Maria and Bruno Coppi Thierry Coquand Paulo D. Cordaro Dr. Edward Corrigan Nathaniel and Katy Craig Professor Christofer E. Cronström Dr. and Mrs. Richard Cruess Joseph E. Davis Mayke de Jong The Harold G. and Nancy A. Diamond Gifts Fund of The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving John M. Dillon
in honor of Richard Stanley
Prof. Dr. Walter Dittrich Subo Dong Robert S. Doran Michael R. Douglas Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Ronald G. Douglas Susan Downey Trust Alexander Dragt Andrew Drucker Pierre du Prey Vincent Dubois Loyal and Bernice Durand Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta Dr. Glenn Dynner Allan Edmonds Richard Ehrenborg Dale Eickelman Jean Bethke Elshtain† David L. Eng and Teemu Ruskola William B. Ewald III Gregory Falkovich Graham Farmelo Ibrahim Fatkullin Alexander Felshtyn Guido Festuccia Graham Finlay Paul Corby Finney Yuval Flicker in memory of Moshe and Ester Zamek
Lisa Florman Carlos A. Forment Ted and Jonnie Frankel Dr. David T. M. Frankfurter Dr. Dorothea A. Frede Dan Freed and Sonia Paban Mr. John Freed Peter Freund Prof. Dr. Werner Fuchs Masaaki Furusawa Dr. Ernest-Ulrich Gekeler Andrew George Dr. Israel Gershoni Amit Ghosh Martin Gilens Tepper L. Gill Frederick Gilman Jane Piore Gilman Marvin D. Girardeau Dr. George I. Glauberman Carol Gluck Chad Alan Goldberg Peter B. Golden William M. Goldman Daniel and Ryoko Goldston Roe W. Goodman Sue Goodman Cameron Gordon
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Ingrid Baumgärtner and Alessandro Nova Prof. Hermann Beck Professor Annette Becker Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak Professor Jacob D. Bekenstein Dr. Marcel Benabou Paul Benacerraf Regina Bendix Professor Vladimir G. Berkovich Alan E. Bernstein Elizabeth Bernstein Professor Nancy Bertoldi Jonathan Best Roman Bezrukavnikov Henry and Leigh Bienen Margarethe Billerbeck David and Phyllis Billington Robert Bireley Norman Birnbaum Thomas Bisson
Larissa Bonfante Professor James Bono Philippe Borgeaud Stephen Boughn Professor Emeritus Carl Boyd George Boys-Stones Alain Bresson Ward Briggs John B. Bronzan Professor Jochen W. Bruening Alessandro Maria Bruni Christer Bruun John and Virginia Bryant Nicholas Buchdahl Glenn R. Bugh
Xiaomei Liu and Kequan Ding
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Members and Visitors (continued) Neve Gordon Professor Allan Gotthelf Andrew P. Gould Michel Gros Jens Grosser G. S. Guralnik Christopher Hailey Prof. Albert N. Hamscher Paul A. Hanle Koichiro Harada Tim Harris Kimberly Hart Kaja Harter-Uibopuu Joel Hass and Abby Thompson Jane Hathaway Charles W. Haxthausen in memory of Oleg Grabar
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Professor Randolph Head Dr. Henryk Hecht Dr. Friedrich Hegenbarth Professor Douglas Heggie Dr. Wolfhart Heinrichs Dr. Helmut Heit James and Lynn Heitsch Yitzhak Hen Dr. Jeffrey R. Henig Johannes Henn Professor Michael Heyd Nancy Hingston Lawrence P. Horwitz Vittorio Hòsle Ryoshi Hotta R. Howe Professor Robert Howell Douglas Howland Yi Hu Hao Huang Mr. James E. Humphreys Susan L. Huntington Harvey Hyman Ph.D. Luc Illusie Ephraim Isaac JN Iyer Elena Izbitser William Jaco James J. John Michael Johnston Dr. Stephen L. Jones Aravind K. Joshi Drs. Seva and Valentina Joukovitski Yosef Kaplan Martin L. Karel Martin Karel
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David Karen Goro C. Kato, V.L.S. Boaz Katz
on behalf of Oleksandr Symonenko
in memory of Armand Borel
Mary and Peter Katzenstein Takahiro Kawai Akio Kawauchi Bernard S. Kay Dennis Kehoe David Kennedy Robert and Nannerl Keohane Martin Kern Henry H. Kim Jungwon Kim Dale Kinney Toichiro Kinoshita Alan Kirman Julius Kirshner Joseph Kiskis Ryuichiro Kitano H. Klingen Baruch Knei-Paz Dr. Christopher Kolda Professor Mihail Kolountzakis Alex Kontorovich Dr. Antoni A. Kosinski Robert Krasny Graham and Tracy Kribs Thomas Kühne John Labute Michele Lamont Paul Langacker Guy Laval Mr. Menachem A. Lazar Pierre Le Boudec Robert and Nancy Lee Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund James Lepowsky Sanford Levinson in honor of Michael Walzer
Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren Congming Li Luen-Chau Li David and Marci Lieberman Paulo Lima-Filho Dr. Alexander Lingas Ming-Chit Liu Dr. Tong Liu Ling Long Michèle Lowrie Steve Lubow Sergio Lukic Michael Maas Andrew MacFadyen Jim and Barb Mackraz Assia Mahboubi Jamal T. Manassah JoAnne M. Mancini Dr. Louise Marlow Rex Martin Dr. Per Martin-Löf Dr. Michael McCord Clinton McCrory
Patrick McGuinn Sarah McPhee Georgi Medvedev Brigitte Meijns Christopher Melchert Jörg Martin Merz Leon Mestel Rob Meyerhoff and Novelle DePen Meyerhoff Stylianos Michalopoulos Dr. Eric O. Michaud Joel and Marcia† Migdal Professor Margaret M. Miles Vernon and Heather Minor Ivan Mirkovic Carlos Julio Moreno Paul S. Mostert Dr. Benjamin Muckenhoupt Edward Muir in memory of Felix Gilbert
Motohico and Sayuri Mulase William Mulligan Melvyn B. Nathanson Matthew Nelson Dietrich C. Neumann in honor of Prof. Guenter Neumann
Professor Y. Jack Ng Doug Niebur Martti Nissinen Thomas F.X. Noble Takashi Ono Dr. Peter P. Orlik Sherry B. Ortner Dr. Patrick S. Osmer Akos Ostor Victor Ostrik Paul Arne Østvær Patricia O’Toole in honor of Peter Goddard
Dr. Angel A. Parham In-Uck Park Leonard Parker Emmanuel Paschos François Paschoud Michael G. Peletz James V. Peters Carl F. Petry Edith Piatetski-Shapiro Steven Pierce Dr. David A. Pietz Henry C. Pinkham Jennifer Pitts and Sankar Muthu Leon Plantinga Professor Elena Poletaeva Dr. Randall A. Poole Jeremy D. Popkin Ludmilla Popova-Wightman D.T. Potts Martin Powers
Members and Visitors (continued) William L. Pressly Dr. Derek L. Pursey Michael Ralph in memory of anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot
in memory of Professor A. Selberg
Salil Vadhan Philip and Arachne van der Eijk Frans and Katherine van Liere Peter Vanderschraaf Francine and Douglas Verney Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. Jonathan Wahl The Walsh Charitable Fund of The Ayco Charitable Foundation Xin Wan Professor Lee Palmer Wandel Georgia Warnke Arthur G. Wasserman Kenneth M. Watson Dr. Brian A. Wecht Charles Weibel David Weinberg Alford T. Welch in memory of Oleg Grabar
Marit Werenskiold Paul Wiita
Drs. Clarence W. and Sharon A. Wilkerson Robert L. Wilson Professor W. Stephen Wilson Dr. Andrew Woldar Reva Wolf in memory of Albert O. Hirschman
Isser Woloch John W. Wood Yong-Shi Wu Dr. Don Wyatt Yifan Yang Professor and Mrs. York-Peng and Cynthia Yao Mitsuru Yasuhara Chen-Pang Yeang M. Crawford Young Jun Yu Professor Froma Zeitlin Everett Zhang Katherine Zieman Aleksey Zinger Ernst-Wilhelm Zink †
Deceased
Matching Gifts to former IAS Members and Visitors
AmeriGives Goldman Sachs & Co. Matching Gift Program Microsoft Matching Gifts Program (3) SIG: Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Einstein Legacy Society The Einstein Legacy Society was established in 1996 to honor those who have made a planned gift to the Institute for Advanced Study, or informed the Institute of a bequest intention or other provision in their estate plans. The Society takes its name from Albert Einstein, Institute Faculty member, 1933–55. Einstein Legacy Society Members include Trustees, Faculty and Faculty Emeriti, Friends, former Members and Visitors, Staff, and other supporters. Anonymous (4) Richard B. Black Enrico Bombieri Addie and Harold Broitman Joseph E. Brown Robert Butow Claude Calame Helen and Martin Chooljian Getzel M. Cohen Giles Constable John W. Dawson Jr. Hedwig C.H. Dekker
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D. Ramachandran Dr. S.S. Rangachari Orest Ranum M. M. Rao Richard T. Rapp Sivaguru Ravisankar Shlomo S. Razamat Margaret A. Readdy Professor Timothy R. Rebbeck and Jill Stopfler Professor Emeritus Theodore Reff Dr. Adele Reinhartz Andre Reznikov Juhyung Rhi Professor P. J. Rhodes Dr. Matthias L. Richter Melvin Richter Elaine and Carl Riehm Nancy Ries F. E. Romer Professor Myriam Rosen-Ayalon Dr. Catherine J. Ross Wimberly C. Royster David and Janine Ruelle Teemu Ruskola Ricardo Salvatore Stuart Samuel Alexia Schulz Juergen and Anne M. Schulz Gerald Schwarz Gerhard Seel Professors Paul Seidel and Ju-Lee Kim Jerrold Seigel Ron and Hila Sela Savdeep Sethi Alan E. Shapiro Dr. and Mrs. Robert O. Shelton Dr. Harvey K. Shepard Eytan Sheshinski Thomas C. Sideris Dr. Elizabeth H. Simmons Yakov Sinai Ali Kemal Sinop David Skinner Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. Neal Snyderman Robert Socolow Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Anders Södergren Rohini Somanathan Charles Sommerfield Dr. Jörg Sonntag Grace Marmor Spruch Dr. Aravind Srinivasan
Bhama Srinivasan Lynn Staley Dr. Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson Harold M. Stark Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Randolph Starn Jim Stasheff Professor Daniel Statman Robert and Maria Steinberg Clarence F. Stephens George Sterman John Stewart Bosze-Stipsicz Christopher Stray and Margaret Kenna Susan Mosher Stuard Matthew Sudano Dr. Toufic M. Suidan Mr. and Mrs. John B. Sullivan Dr. Anna Sun Xiaodong Sun, Ph.D. Dr. Claudia Swan Yuji Tachikawa Earl J. Taft William Tait Richard Talbert Dr. Cynthia Talbot Deborah Tannen Mina Teicher Dr. Michael Temkin Professor Johan C. Thom Prof. Dr. Gerhard Thür Ralph Tindell Tsvi Tlusty Salvatore Torquato Lisa Traynor Professor Sandip P. Trivedi Francesca Trivellato Kai Man Tsang
in memory of Professor Jacob C.E. Dekker
Professor William Doyle, FBA
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Einstein Legacy Society (continued)
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Masaaki Eguchi Janet and Arthur Eschenlauer Carl Faith Graham Farmelo Carl and Toby Feinberg Dr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) Fischer Lor and Michael Gehret Peter and Helen Goddard Barbara F. Graham and Theodore S. Meth Rachel D. Gray ‡ Betty W. (Tina) Greenberg Phillip A. Griffiths Robert M. Guralnick‡ Ralph E. Hansmann Morton E. Harris James F. Hawkins Sigurdur Helgason Rosanna W. Jaffin Akio Kawauchi Tatsuo Kimura George Labalme Jr. Dr. Florian Langenscheidt Robert Langlands Joseph Lehner† Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Loughlin Robert MacPherson and Mark Goresky Hamish Maxwell Loris and Bruce McKellar Annette Merle-Smith Lloyd and Dorothy Moote Alexander P.D. Mourelatos Albert Nijenhuis Elena Petronio John H. Rassweiler Millard M. Riggs Barbara Heard Roberts Daniel H. Saracino Richard Donald Schafer N.J. Slabbert Chuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. Palais Franklin K. Toker Grazia Tonelli Marilyn and Scott Tremaine Professor and Mrs. V.S. Varadarajan Professor C. Franciscus Verellen and Mrs. Isabelle M. Verellen Morton G. White Brian F. Wruble ‡
New member of the Einstein Legacy Society
†
Deceased
Gifts-in-Kind Dr. Stefan Alexandru Dr. Susan D. Amussen Professor Han N. Baltussen Robert Bjork
Madame Mayotte Bollack G. W. Bowersock George Boys-Stones Christer Bruun Mildred Budny Professor Caroline W. Bynum Professor Angelos Chaniotis Dr. Wendy H. K. Chun Dr. Lee Cronk Dr. John De Figueriedo Mayke de Jong Lola Dodkhudoeva Dr. André Dombrowski Panagiotis Doukellis Dr. Glenn Dynner Sir John Elliott Graham Farmelo Professor Didier Fassin Dr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) Fischer Dr. Pierre-Louis Gatier Dr. Alexander K. Gavrilov Sharon Gerstel Mrs. Helen Goddard Terry Grabar Dr. Mauro F. Guillen Christian Habicht Dr. Rudolf Haensch Tim Harris Kimberly Hart Yitzhak Hen Dr. Thomas Kjeller Johansen Dr. Padma Kaimal Dr. Christina Kiaer Dr. Antoni A. Kosinski Derek Krueger Ellen G. Landau The Professors Marilyn and Irving Lavin Dr. Renee Levine Melammed Dr. Monique Longerstay Nino Luraghi Dr. James Matthews Knut W. Nörr Dr. Elzbieta Olechowska Gerda S. Panofsky Professor Paul Paret Professor Peter Paret Dr. Adele Reinhartz Mr. Giuseppe A. Ricci Melvin Richter Teemu Ruskola Dr. Adam Sabra Katia Salomon Dr. Évelyne Samama Joan W. Scott Ron and Hila Sela Lynn Staley Dr. Maria Stavrinaki Fritz Stern
Dr. Karl Strobel Steven Vanderputten Peter Vanderschraaf Dr. Justus Von Daniels Dr. Ian P. Wei Dr. Frédérique Woerther
Professorships, Memberships, and Other Dedicated Funds The Institute expresses its continuing gratitude to donors who have provided support through these endowed funds and through gifts and pledges of operating support. Endowed Professorships
Richard Black Professorship Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professorship Albert O. Hirschman Professorship IBM von Neumann Professorship George F. Kennan Professorship Leon Levy Professorship Harold F. Linder Professorship Luce Foundation Professorship in East Asian Studies Herbert H. Maass Professorship Andrew W. Mellon Professorship Charles Simonyi Professorship UPS Foundation Professorship Hermann Weyl Professorship James D. Wolfensohn Professorship in Social Science Endowed and Annual1 Member Support
American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship AMIAS Membership John N. Bahcall Fellowship The Bell Companies Fellowship Bristol-Myers Squibb Membership in Biology Addie and Harold Broitman Membership in Biology Charles L. Brown Membership in Biology S.S. Chern Foundation for Mathematics Research Fund Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Founders’ Circle Member Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Membership Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Visiting Professor in Biology Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Visiting Professor Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies Corning Glass Works Foundation Fellowship
Professorships, Memberships, and Other Dedicated Funds (continued)
Henry Schaerf Memorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. William H. Scheide Artistin-Residence Endowment Simons Center for Systems Biology Endowment Simons Foundation Endowment Fund Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowment Fund Karoly Simonyi Memorial Endowment Fund The Sivian Fund The Starr Foundation Biology Endowment Leo Usdan Fund Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Endowment Wolf Foundation Prize Endowment
Other Dedicated Endowments and Funds
Ruth and Irving Adler Expository Lectures in Mathematics Fund Adler Family Fund Artist-in-Residence Endowment The Broitman Foundation Fund Edward T. Cone Concert Series Endowment R. Llewelyn Davies Fund Gladys Krieble Delmas Endowment Paul Dirac Fund Ky Fan and Yu-Fen Fan Endowment Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Endowment Professor Harish-Chandra Endowment IAS Land Endowment Robert and Lynn Johnston Fund Kresge Challenge Fund Dr. S.T. Lee Fund for Historical Studies Leon Levy Book Fund Mary Marquand Endowment Marston Morse Memorial Fund New Initiatives Fund Erwin Panofsky Fund Nancy Peretsman and Robert Scully Endowment Public Policy Lecture Series Endowment Raymond and Beverly Sackler Colloquia in the School of Natural Sciences
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George William Cottrell, Jr., Membership Roger Dashen Membership The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Membership Deutsche Bank Membership Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship Willis F. Doney Membership The Ellentuck Fund European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., and Annette L. Nazareth Membership Fernholz Foundation Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professorship Fund The 50th Anniversary Fellowship in Social Science Richard B. Fisher Membership Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Membership Fund for Historical Studies Fund for Mathematics Fund for Natural Sciences Fund for Social Science Felix Gilbert Membership Marvin L. Goldberger Membership Hetty Goldman Membership Florence Gould Foundation Fund Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Membership Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Membership Maureen and John Hendricks Visiting Professorship Gerda Henkel Stiftung Membership The Herodotus Fund IBM Einstein Fellowships W. M. Keck Foundation Fund Hans Kohn Membership Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Membership Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member William D. Loughlin Membership Anneliese Maier Research Award The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors The Ambrose Monell Foundation NASA Einstein Fellowship Program National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Endowment for the Humanities
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Jansky Fellowship National Science Foundation Natural Sciences Membership Fund Otto Neugebauer Fund Patrons’ Endowment Fund Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund Eric and Wendy Schmidt Membership in Biology Charles Simonyi Endowment Fund Space Telescope Science Institute Hubble Fellowship The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Louise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member Frank and Peggy Taplin Membership United States Department of Energy United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation The Oswald Veblen Fund Volkswagen Stiftung Dilthey Fellowship Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellowship Wolfensohn Family Membership The James D. Wolfensohn Fund Zurich Financial Services Membership
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Annual gifts from July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013
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Founders, Trustees, and Officers of the Board and of the Corporation, 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013 Founders Louis Bamberger Caroline Bamberger Fuld
Carmela Vircillo Franklin Professor of Classics Columbia University New York, New York
Board and Corporate Officers
Vartan Gregorian President, Carnegie Corporation of New York New York, New York
Charles Simonyi Chairman of the Board Martin L. Leibowitz Vice Chairman of the Board and President of the Corporation
F O U N D E R S , T R U ST E E S , A N D O F F I C E R S O F T H E B OA R D A N D O F T H E C O R P O R AT I O N
James H. Simons Vice Chairman of the Board
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Brian F. Wruble Treasurer of the Corporation John Masten Assistant Treasurer Nancy S. MacMillan Secretary of the Corporation Michael Gehret Assistant Secretary
The Board of Trustees Victoria B. Bjorklund Of Counsel Founder, Exempt-Organizations Group Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP New York, New York Curtis Callan James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Cynthia Carroll London, England Neil A. Chriss Founder and Chief Investment Officer Hutchin Hill LP New York, New York Robbert Dijkgraaf Director and Leon Levy Professor Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey Mario Draghi President, European Central Bank Frankfurt, Germany Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. President and Chief Executive Officer TIAA-CREF New York, New York E. Robert Fernholz Founder Chairman of the Investment Committee INTECH Princeton, New Jersey
Benedict H. Gross George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
William H. Sewell, Jr. Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History Department of Political Science The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Harold T. Shapiro President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
John S. Hendricks Founder and Chairman Discovery Communications Silver Spring, Maryland
James H. Simons Chairman of the Board, Renaissance Technologies LLC, and President, Euclidean Capital LLC New York, New York
Peter R. Kann Chairman and CEO (retired) Dow Jones & Company, Incorporated New York, New York
Charles Simonyi Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Intentional Software Corporation Bellevue, Washington
Bruce Kovner Chairman Caxton Alternative Management LP New York, New York Trustee through April 19, 2013
Peter Svennilson Founder and Managing Partner The Column Group San Francisco, California
Spiro J. Latsis President, SETE SA Geneva, Switzerland Martin L. Leibowitz Managing Director, Morgan Stanley New York, New York Nancy S. MacMillan Publisher, Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton, New Jersey
Shelby White Trustee Leon Levy Foundation New York, New York Marina v.N. Whitman Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
David F. Marquardt Partner, August Capital Menlo Park, California
Brian F. Wruble Chairman Emeritus The Jackson Laboratory Key West, Florida
Nancy B. Peretsman Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC New York, New York
Trustees Emeriti
Martin Rees Professor Emeritus of Cosmology and Astrophysics Astronomer Royal and Fellow of Trinity College University of Cambridge Cambridge, England David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer The Carlyle Group Washington, D.C. James J. Schiro Chairman of the Group Management Board and CEO of Zurich Financial Services (retired) New York, New York Eric E. Schmidt Executive Chairman Google Inc. Mountain View, California
Richard B. Black Martin A. Chooljian Sidney D. Drell Ralph E. Hansmann Helene L. Kaplan Immanuel Kohn (deceased March 4, 2013) David K.P. Li Hamish Maxwell Ronaldo H. Schmitz Martin E. Segal (deceased August 5, 2012) Michel L. Vaillaud Ladislaus von Hoffmann James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman Emeritus
Administration, 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2013 Robbert Dijkgraaf Director and Leon Levy Professor Karen Cuozzo Assistant to the Director Robert Ruggiero Special Assistant to the Director Through March 31, 2013
John Masten Associate Director for Finance and Administration Anthony Bordieri, Jr. Manager of Facilities Ashvin Chhabra Chief Investment Officer Through June 19, 2013 Michael Ciccone Manager of Administrative Services Roberta Gernhardt Manager of Human Resources Through September 14, 2012 Michael Klompus Manager of Human Resources From October 1, 2012 Mary Mazza Comptroller Michel Reymond Chef/Manager, Dining Services
Library Administration Momota Ganguli Librarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Marcia Tucker Librarian, Historical Studies and Social Science (also Coordinator of Information Access for Computing, Telecommunications, and Networking Administration) Christine Di Bella Archivist
School Administration Mary Jane Hayes Administrative Officer School of Mathematics Donne Petito Administrative Officer School of Social Science Michelle Sage Administrative Officer School of Natural Sciences Suzanne P. Christen Executive Director and Administrator The Simons Center for Systems Biology School of Natural Sciences
Susannah Coleman Senior Development Officer Through January 25, 2013
Catherine E. Giesbrecht Program Officer IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute
Christine Ferrara Senior Public Affairs Officer
Arlen K. Hastings Executive Director, Science Initiative Group
Kelly Devine Thomas Senior Publications Officer
Brian Epstein Computer Manager Network and Security Kevin Kelly Computer Manager School of Mathematics From January 2, 2013 Jonathan Peele Computer Manager Information Technology Group James Stephens Computer Manager School of Natural Sciences Thomas Howard Uphill Computer Manager School of Mathematics Through December 31, 2012 Edna Wigderson Manager Databases and Integration
A D M I N I ST R AT I O N
Programs
Pamela Hughes Senior Development Officer
Jeffrey Berliner Manager of Computing
Marian Gallagher Zelazny Administrative Officer School of Historical Studies
Michael Gehret Associate Director for Development and Public Affairs
Catherine Fleming Senior Development Officer
Computing, Telecommunications, and Networking Administration
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Present and Past Directors (in order of service as of June 30, 2013) Abraham Flexner · Frank Aydelotte J. Robert Oppenheimer · Carl Kaysen · Harry Woolf Marvin L. Goldberger · Phillip A. Griffiths · Peter Goddard · Robbert Dijkgraaf
Present and Past Faculty (2012–2013 Faculty and Faculty Emeriti are in bold)
Stephen L. Adler · James W. Alexander · Andrew E. Z. Alföldi · Danielle S. Allen Nima Arkani-Hamed · Michael F. Atiyah · John N. Bahcall · Arne K. A. Beurling · Yve-Alain Bois Enrico Bombieri · Armand Borel · Jean Bourgain · Glen W. Bowersock Caroline Walker Bynum · Luis A. Caffarelli · Angelos Chaniotis · Harold F. Cherniss · Marshall Clagett Giles Constable · Patricia Crone · José Cutileiro · Roger F. Dashen · Pierre Deligne Nicola Di Cosmo · Freeman J. Dyson · Edward M. Earle · Albert Einstein · John H. Elliott Didier Fassin · Patrick J. Geary · Clifford Geertz · Felix Gilbert · James F. Gilliam · Peter Goddard Kurt Gödel · Hetty Goldman · Peter Goldreich · Oleg Grabar · Phillip A. Griffiths · Christian Habicht Harish-Chandra · Ernst Herzfeld · Albert O. Hirschman · Helmut Hofer · Lars V. Hörmander · Piet Hut
P R E S E NT A N D PAST D I R E C TO R S A N D FAC U LT Y
Jonathan Israel · Ernst H. Kantorowicz · George F. Kennan · Robert P. Langlands · Irving Lavin
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Tsung-Dao Lee · Stanislas Leibler · Arnold J. Levine · Elias A. Lowe · Robert MacPherson Juan Maldacena · Avishai Margalit · Eric S. Maskin · Jack F. Matlock, Jr. · Millard Meiss Benjamin D. Meritt · John W. Milnor · David Mitrany · Deane Montgomery · Marston Morse J. Robert Oppenheimer · Abraham Pais · Erwin Panofsky · Peter Paret · Tullio E. Regge Winfield W. Riefler · Marshall N. Rosenbluth · Peter Sarnak · Joan Wallach Scott · Nathan Seiberg Atle Selberg · Kenneth M. Setton · Carl L. Siegel · Thomas Spencer · Walter W. Stewart Bengt G. D. Strömgren · Richard Taylor · Homer A. Thompson · Scott Tremaine · Kirk Varnedoe Oswald Veblen · Vladimir Voevodsky · John von Neumann · Heinrich von Staden Michael Walzer · Robert B. Warren · André Weil · Hermann Weyl · Morton White · Hassler Whitney Avi Wigderson · Frank Wilczek · Edward Witten · Ernest Llewellyn Woodward Chen Ning Yang · Shing-Tung Yau · Matias Zaldarriaga
Institute for Advanced Study— Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation Financial Statements June 30, 2013 and 2012 (With Independent Auditors’ Report Thereon)
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Independent Auditors’ Report
The Board of Trustees Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation:
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the Institute), which comprise the statements of financial position as of June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the related statements of activities and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes to the financial statements. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditors’ Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
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We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.
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Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation as of June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
November 25, 2013
STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION JUNE 30, 2013 AND 2012 Assets Cash and cash equivalents Accounts receivable and other assets Grants receivable Contributions receivable窶馬et Unamortized debt issuance costs窶馬et Funds held by bond trustee Beneficial interest in remainder trust Land, buildings and improvements, equipment, and rare book collection窶馬et Investments Total assets
2013 ______________ $
5,457,600 1,029,779 3,138,227 33,261,877 625,490 2,281,080 2,721,332
2012 ______________ 6,201,135 1,871,735 4,325,582 50,480,353 467,346 2,407,508 2,834,108
74,496,930 671,372,318 ______________
69,544,447 607,790,303 ______________
$
794,384,633 ______________ ______________
745,922,517 ______________ ______________
$
7,875,196 5,316,308 2,245,464 13,175,092 1,005,070 4,475,949 289,954 66,050,034 ______________
6,291,175 7,355,774 2,224,186 15,061,242 993,443 6,498,621 358,908 52,741,795 ______________
100,433,067 ______________
91,525,144 ______________
364,283,394 147,257,386 182,410,786 ______________
346,522,897 134,811,093 173,063,383 ______________
693,951,566 ______________
654,397,373 ______________
794,384,633 ______________ ______________
745,922,517 ______________ ______________
Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses Deferred revenue Liabilities under split-interest agreements Postretirement benefit obligation Asset retirement obligation Bond swap liability Note payable Long-term debt, net of discount Total liabilities Net assets: Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted
Total liabilities and net assets
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
$
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Total net assets
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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2013
Unrestricted ____________ Operating revenues, gains, and other support: Private contributions and grants Government grants Endowment spending policy Auxiliary activity Net assets released from restrictions— satisfaction of program restrictions
$
Total operating revenues, gains, and other support Expenses: School of Mathematics School of Natural Sciences School of Historical Studies School of Social Science Libraries and other academic Administration and general Auxiliary activity Total expenses Change in net assets from operations, including depreciation
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Net assets—beginning of year Net assets—end of year
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
8,917,535 7,266,639 16,090,456 —
— — — —
Total ____________ 8,917,535 7,266,639 34,679,600 5,894,135
32,274,630 ____________
(32,274,630) — ____________ ____________
— ____________
56,757,909 ____________
— — ____________ ____________
56,757,909 ____________
10,912,238 11,643,841 7,582,420 4,330,501 8,185,287 9,510,608 7,073,128 ____________
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — ____________ ____________
10,912,238 11,643,841 7,582,420 4,330,501 8,185,287 9,510,608 7,073,128 ____________
59,238,023 ____________
— — ____________ ____________
59,238,023 ____________
(2,480,114)
Other revenues, gains, and other support: Private contributions and grants Endowment change after applying spending policy Change in fair value of bond swap liability Gain on sale of plant assets Change in net assets
— — 18,589,144 5,894,135
Permanently Temporarily restricted restricted ____________ ____________
733,147 17,240,968 2,022,672 243,824 ____________ 17,760,497
—
—
396,250 9,347,403 12,050,043 — — — — — ____________ ____________ 12,446,293
9,347,403
(2,480,114)
10,476,800 29,291,011 2,022,672 243,824 ____________ 39,554,193
346,522,897 ____________
134,811,093 173,063,383 ____________ ____________
654,397,373 ____________
$ 364,283,394 ____________ ____________
147,257,386 182,410,786 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
693,951,566 ____________ ____________
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2012
Unrestricted ____________ Operating revenues, gains, and other support: Private contributions and grants Government grants Endowment spending policy Auxiliary activity Net assets released from restrictions— satisfaction of program restrictions
$
Total operating revenues, gains, and other support Expenses: School of Mathematics School of Natural Sciences School of Historical Studies School of Social Science Libraries and other academic Administration and general Auxiliary activity Total expenses Change in net assets from operations, including depreciation
Net assets—end of year
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
— — — —
18,764,858 8,366,951 23,662,900 5,059,512
(37,841,927) — ____________ ____________
— ____________
55,854,221 ____________
— — ____________ ____________
55,854,221 ____________
10,576,045 11,095,543 6,790,033 4,096,095 8,528,094 12,164,093 5,844,090 ____________
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — ____________ ____________
10,576,045 11,095,543 6,790,033 4,096,095 8,528,094 12,164,093 5,844,090 ____________
59,093,993 ____________
— — ____________ ____________
59,093,993 ____________
652,182 (6,739,386) (2,558,439) (36,157) ____________ (11,921,572)
—
—
79,089 74,979,752 (6,384,460) — — — — — ____________ ____________ (6,305,371)
74,979,752
(3,239,772)
75,711,023 (13,123,846) (2,558,439) (36,157) ____________ 56,752,809
358,444,469 ____________
141,116,464 98,083,631 ____________ ____________
597,644,564 ____________
$ 346,522,897 ____________ ____________
134,811,093 173,063,383 ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
654,397,373 ____________ ____________
AU D I T E D F I N A N C I A L STAT E M E NT S
Net assets—beginning of year
18,764,858 8,366,951 10,710,118 —
Total ____________
37,841,927 ____________
(3,239,772)
Other revenues, gains, and other support: Private contributions and grants Endowment change after applying spending policy Change in fair value of bond swap liability Loss on sale of plant assets Change in net assets
— — 12,952,782 5,059,512
Permanently Temporarily restricted restricted ____________ ____________
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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2013 AND 2012 2013 ______________ Cash flows from operating activities: Change in net assets Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash used in operating activities: Depreciation Contributions restricted for endowment and plant Net realized and unrealized gains Change in fair value of bond swap liability (Gain) loss on sale of plant assets Amortization of debt issuance costs Amortization of bond discount Changes in assets/liabilities: Accounts receivable, grants receivable, and other assets Contributions receivable Beneficial interest in remainder trust Accounts payable and accrued expenses Deferred revenue Postretirement benefit obligation Asset retirement obligation
$
39,554,193
56,752,809
4,813,656 (25,585,914) (66,212,269) (2,022,672) (243,824) 48,806 20,550
4,198,798 (25,737,701) (11,989,659) 2,558,439 36,157 51,587 22,150
2,029,311 17,218,476 112,776 1,584,021 (2,039,466) (1,886,150) 11,627 ______________
(18,987) (49,332,313) 371,897 (698,549) (1,206,215) 607,130 27,994 ______________
(32,596,879) ______________
(24,356,463) ______________
1,396,406 (10,918,721) 289,709,193 (287,078,939) ______________
3,074,738 (17,053,168) 208,116,315 (196,255,448) ______________
(6,892,061) ______________
(2,117,563) ______________
25,585,914 21,278 (206,950) (92,311) 17,320,000 (1,940,000) (2,000,000) (68,954) 126,428 ______________
25,737,701 (286,615) — — — — (2,055,000) (67,595) 2,733,758 ______________
38,745,405 ______________ (743,535)
26,062,249 ______________ (411,777)
6,201,135 ______________
6,612,912 ______________
$ ______________ 5,457,600 ______________
6,201,135 ______________ ______________
Net cash used in operating activities Cash flows from investing activities: Proceeds from sale of plant assets Purchase of plant assets Proceeds from sale of investments Purchase of investments
AU D I T E D F I N A N C I A L STAT E M E NT S
Net cash used in investing activities Cash flows from financing activities: Contributions restricted for endowment and plant Increase (decrease) in liabilities under split-interest agreements Debt issuance costs on 2012 Taxable Bonds Discount on 2012 Taxable Bonds Proceeds from issuance of 2012 Taxable Bonds Advance refunding of 2001 Series A Bonds Principal payments on long-term debt Principal payments on note payable Decrease in funds held by bond trustee Net cash provided by financing activities Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents—beginning of year Cash and cash equivalents—end of year Supplemental data: Interest paid
See accompanying notes to financial statements. 108
2012 ______________
$
1,884,445
1,581,020
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS JUNE 30, 2013 AND 2012
(1)
Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Organization The Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the Institute), an independent, private institution devoted to the encouragement, support, and patronage of learning, was founded in 1930 as a community of scholars where intellectual inquiry could be carried out in the most favorable circumstances. Focused on mathematics and classical studies at the outset, the Institute today consists of the School of Historical Studies, the School of Mathematics, the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Social Science. Each school has a small permanent faculty, and some 190 fellowships are awarded annually to members visiting the Institute from other research institutions and universities throughout the world. The Founders’ original letter to the first Trustees described the objectives of the Institute as follows: “The primary purpose is the pursuit of advanced learning and exploration in fields of pure science and high scholarship to the utmost degree that the facilities of the institution and the ability of the faculty and students will permit.”
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation The accompanying financial statements, which are presented on the accrual basis of accounting, have been prepared to focus on the Institute as a whole and to present net assets and revenues, expenses, gains, and losses based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions. Accordingly, net assets and changes therein are classified as follows:
•
Permanently restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that they be maintained permanently by the Institute. Generally, the donors of these assets permit the Institute to use all or part of the income earned on related investments for general or specific purposes.
•
Temporarily restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that will be met by actions of the Institute and/or by the passage of time.
•
Unrestricted net assets—net assets not subject to donor-imposed stipulations. Unrestricted net assets may be designated for specific purposes by action of the board of trustees.
(a)
Contributions and Grants Contributions and grants, including unconditional promises to give, are recognized initially at fair value as revenues in the period received. Conditional promises to give are not recognized until they become unconditional, that is when the conditions on which they depend are substantially met. Contributions of assets other than cash are recorded at their estimated fair value. Pledges of contributions to be received after one year are discounted at a risk-adjusted discount rate. The discount rates range from 0.15% to 1.41%. Amortization of discount is recorded as additional contribution revenue in accordance with donor-imposed restrictions, if any, on the contributions. The inputs to the fair value estimate are considered Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. Contributions of long-lived assets are reported as unrestricted revenue. Contributions restricted for the acquisition of grounds, buildings, and equipment are reported as temporarily restricted revenues. These contributions are reclassified to unrestricted net assets upon acquisition of the assets.
(b)
Cash and Cash Equivalents
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Revenues are reported as increases in unrestricted net assets unless use of the related asset is limited by donor-imposed restrictions. Expenses are reported as decreases in unrestricted net assets. Expiration of donor-imposed stipulations that simultaneously increase unrestricted net assets and decrease temporarily restricted net assets are reported as net assets released from restrictions.
Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand and all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less, except for those managed as a component of the Institute’s investment portfolio. 109
(c)
Investments Investments in marketable securities are reported in the financial statements at fair value based on published market quotations. Investments in limited partnerships and hedge funds are reported in the financial statements at estimated fair value using net asset value (NAV) or its equivalent as a practical expedient, based upon values provided by external investment managers or general partners, unless it is probable that all or a portion of the investment will be sold for an amount different from NAV. The Institute reviews and evaluates the values provided by external investment managers and general partners and agrees with the valuation methods and assumptions used in determining the fair value of funds. These estimated fair values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for these securities existed. As of June 30, 2013 and 2012, the Institute had no plans or intentions to sell investments at amounts different from NAV. The statements of activities recognize unrealized gains and losses on investments as increases and decreases, respectively, in unrestricted net assets unless their use is temporarily or permanently restricted by explicit donor stipulation or law. Gains and losses on the sale of investment securities are calculated using the specific identification method. The Institute regularly offers first mortgages on primary residences to full-time faculty and senior administrative employees who have met certain requirements stipulated by the board of trustees.
(d)
Fair Value Measurements Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. The fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows:
• •
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Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities and certain alternative investments that can be redeemed at or near the statement of financial position date. Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the asset or liabilities and certain alternative investments that are not redeemable in the near term.
Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time, based on available market information and judgments about the financial asset, including estimates of timing, amount of expected future cash flows, and the credit standing of the issuer. In some cases, the fair value estimates cannot be substantiated by comparison to independent markets. In addition, the disclosed fair value may not be realized in the immediate settlement of the financial asset and does not reflect any premium or discount that could result from offering for sale at one time an entire holding of a particular financial asset. Potential taxes and other expenses that would be incurred in an actual sale or settlement are not reflected in amounts disclosed. Because the net asset value reported by limited partnerships and hedge funds is used as a practical expedient to estimate fair value of the Institute’s interest therein, classification of such investments in the fair value hierarchy as Level 2 or 3 is based on the Institute’s ability to redeem its interest at or near the statement of financial position date. If the interest can be redeemed in the near term (within 90 days), the investment is classified as Level 2.
(e)
Plant Assets and Depreciation Proceeds from the sale of plant assets, if unrestricted, are transferred to operating funds, or, if restricted, to amounts temporarily restricted for plant acquisitions. Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets on a straight-line basis (buildings and capital improvements 20–40 years, equipment 3–6 years).
(f)
Deferred Revenue Amounts received on conditional grants are recorded initially as deferred revenue and are reported as revenues when expended in accordance with the terms of the condition.
(g)
Split-Interest Agreements The Institute is the beneficiary of various unitrusts, pooled income funds, and a gift annuity fund. The Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in these split-interest agreements is reported as a contribution in the year received and is calculated as the difference between the fair value of the assets contributed to the Institute and the estimated liability to the beneficiary. This liability is computed using actuarially determined rates and is adjusted annually to reflect changes in the life expectancy of the donor or annuitant, amortization of the discount, and other changes in the estimates of future payments. The assets held by the Institute under these arrangements are recorded at fair value as determined by quoted market prices and are included as a component of investments.
(h)
Unamortized Debt Issuance Costs Debt issuance costs represent costs incurred in connection with debt financing. Amortization of these costs is provided on the effective interest method extending over the remaining term of the applicable indebtedness. Debt issuance costs at June 30, 2013 and 2012 were net of accumulated amortization of $911,213 and $862,407, respectively.
(i)
Other Revenues, Gains, and Other Support A portion of long-term investment income and gains and losses is allocated to operating revenue each year in accordance with the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spending policy for investments held for endowment and similar purposes, as more fully discussed in note 4. All other investment income earned and gains and losses on investments held for long-term purposes, change in fair value of bond swap liability, and nonrecurring revenue and expenses are considered other revenues, gains and other support in the statements of activities. Private contributions and grants budgeted for operations are included in operating revenues, gains, and other support. All other private contributions and grants are considered other revenues, gains, and other support.
(j)
Asset Retirement Obligation The Institute recognizes the fair value of a liability for legal obligations associated with asset retirements in the period in which the obligation is incurred, if a reasonable estimate of the fair value of the obligation can be made. When the liability is initially recorded, the Institute capitalizes the cost of the asset retirement obligation by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. The liability is accreted to its present value each period and the capitalized cost associated with the retirement obligation is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Upon settlement of the obligation, any difference between the cost to settle the asset retirement obligation and the liability recorded is recognized as a gain or loss in the statements of activities.
(k)
Fund Raising Expenses Fund raising expenses incurred by the Institute amounted to $1,582,457 and $1,562,269 for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. This amount is included in administration and general expenses in the accompanying statements of activities.
(l)
Functional Allocation of Expenses
(m)
Tax Status The Institute is exempt from federal income taxes pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and is listed in the Internal Revenue Service Publication 78. The Institute has been classified as a public charity under Section 509(a) of the Code. There are certain transactions that could be deemed unrelated business income and would result in a tax liability. Management reviews transactions to estimate potential tax liabilities using a threshold of more likely than not. It is managementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimation that there are no material tax liabilities that need to be recorded.
(n)
Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Estimates also affect the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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The costs of providing program services and support services of the Institute have been summarized on a functional basis in the statements of activities. Accordingly, certain operating costs have been allocated among the functional categories.
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(2)
Contributions Receivable Unconditional promises to give at June 30, 2013 and 2012 were as follows:
Unconditional promises to give: Less than one year One to five years Discount on promises to give Total
2013 ______________
2012 ______________
11,370,002 23,597,845 ______________
20,426,475 31,034,037 ______________
34,967,847 (1,705,970) ______________
51,460,512 (980,159) ______________
$ ______________ 33,261,877 ______________
50,480,353 ______________ ______________
$
At June 30, 2013, 98% of gross contributions receivable and 31% of contributions revenue are from four and two donors respectively. At June 30, 2012, 99% of gross contributions receivable and 77% of contributions revenue are from four donors. During fiscal 2011, the Institute received two conditional pledges totaling $100 million to enhance the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endowment fund. The pledges are conditioned on the Institute raising an additional $100 million in cash or pledges from third-party donors in the period January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2015. The conditional pledge payments began in June 2011 and will continue through March 31, 2016. As of June 30, 2013 and 2012, the Institute has recorded revenue totaling approximately $49 million and $43 million, respectively, relating to these conditional pledges.
(3)
Investments, Funds Held by Bond Trustee, and Beneficial Interest in Remainder Trust (a)
Overall Investment Objective The overall investment objective of the Institute is to invest its assets in a prudent manner that will achieve a long-term rate of return sufficient to fund a portion of its annual operating activities and capital preservation. The Institute diversifies its investments among various managers and investment opportunities. Substantially all of the investments are pooled with each individual fund subscribing to or disposing of units on the basis of the market value per unit, determined on a quarterly basis. Major investment decisions are authorized by the Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Investment Committee, which oversees the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investment program in accordance with established guidelines.
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Allocation of Investment Strategies In addition to traditional stocks and fixed-income securities, the Institute may also hold shares or units in traditional institutional funds as well as in alternative investment funds involving hedged strategies, private equity, and real asset strategies. Hedged strategies involve funds whose managers have the authority to invest in various asset classes at their discretion, including the ability to invest long and short. Funds with hedged strategies generally hold securities or other financial instruments for which a ready market exists and may include stocks, bonds, put or call options, swaps, currency hedges, and other instruments, and are valued accordingly. Private equity funds employ buyout and venture capital strategies and focus on investments in turn-around situations. Real asset funds generally hold interests in public real estate investment trusts (REITS) or commercial real estate through sole-member entities. Private equity and real asset strategies therefore often require the estimation of fair values by the fund managers in the absence of readily determinable market values. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, these estimated fair values may differ significantly from values that would have been used had a ready market existed, and the differences could be material. Such valuations are determined by fund managers and generally consider variables such as operating results, comparable earnings multiples, projected cash flows, recent sales prices, and other pertinent information, and may reflect discounts for the illiquid nature of certain investments held.
The following tables summarize the Institute’s investments and other assets at fair value by major category in the fair value hierarchy as of June 30, 2013 and 2012, as well as related strategy, liquidity, and funding commitments:
June 30, 2013 ____________________________________________________________ Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total ____________________________________________________________ Investments: Long-term investment strategies: Hedge funds—onshore: Emerging markets Equities—long bias Multiple strategies
$
Total Hedge funds—offshore: Commercial mortgage backed Distressed/high-yield Emerging markets Equities—long bias Equities—long/short Event driven strategies Fixed income arbitrage Global asset allocation Multiple strategies Quantitative/CTA Quantitative equity long short Fixed income—relative value Bio tech/health care
— — 9,730,472 9,730,472 — — 11,541,391 11,541,391 — — 8,477,358 8,477,358 — 15,948,000 — 15,948,000 — 26,682,915 32,056,785 58,739,700 — 10,073,922 — 10,073,922 — — 27,630,277 27,630,277 — 25,458,338 — 25,458,338 — 63,087,904 143,921,877 207,009,781 — 5,655,609 — 5,655,609 — 10,430,293 — 10,430,293 — — 11,186,073 11,186,073 — ______________ — ______________ 11,253,449 ______________ 11,253,449 ______________ — ______________ 157,336,981 ______________ 255,797,682 ______________ 413,134,663 ______________
Total
Total investments Other assets: Beneficial interest in remainder trust Funds held by bond trustee: U.S. government obligations Total other assets
— 56,560,492
— —
117,080,539 —
117,080,539 56,560,492
17,240 — — 17,240 — — 4,077,332 4,077,332 — ______________ — ______________ 8,787,133 ______________ 8,787,133 ______________ $ ______________ 56,577,732 ______________ 169,322,265 ______________ 445,472,321 ______________ 671,372,318 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ $
—
—
2,721,332
2,721,332
2,281,080 ______________ — ______________ — ______________ 2,281,080 ______________ $ ______________ 2,281,080 ______________ — ______________ 2,721,332 ______________ 5,002,412 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
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Limited partnerships (1) Cash and cash equivalents Other investments: Assets held under split-interest agreements: Cash and cash equivalents Fixed income securities Mortgages from faculty and staff
— — 1,524,829 1,524,829 — 11,985,284 — 11,985,284 — ______________ — ______________ 58,204,806 ______________ 58,204,806 __________________ — ______________ 11,985,284 ______________ 59,729,635 ______________ 71,714,919 __________________
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June 30, 2012 __________________________________________________________ Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total __________________________________________________________ Investments: Long-term investment strategies: Hedge funds—onshore: Emerging markets Equities—long bias Multiple strategies
$
Total Hedge funds—offshore: Commercial mortgage backed Distressed/high-yield Emerging markets Equities—long bias Equities—long/short Event driven strategies Fixed income arbitrage Global asset allocation Multiple strategies Bio tech/health care
— — 12,622,481 12,622,481 — — 18,111,452 18,111,452 — — 9,021,029 9,021,029 — 12,141,063 — 12,141,063 — 36,288,006 27,636,088 63,924,094 — 9,182,183 — 9,182,183 — — 27,706,190 27,706,190 — 24,582,389 — 24,582,389 — 59,654,691 149,938,329 209,593,020 — ______________ 12,290,624 ______________ — ______________ 12,290,624 ______________ — ______________ 154,138,956 ______________ 245,035,569 ______________ 399,174,525 ______________
Total Limited partnerships (1) Cash and cash equivalents Other investments: Assets held under split-interest agreements: Cash and cash equivalents Fixed income securities Mortgages from faculty and staff
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Total investments
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Other assets: Beneficial interest in remainder trust Funds held by bond trustee: U.S. government obligations Total other assets
— 4,213,509 1,541,397 5,754,906 — 9,597,508 — 9,597,508 — ______________ — ______________ 51,440,383 ______________ 51,440,383 __________________ — ______________ 13,811,017 ______________ 52,981,780 ______________ 66,792,797 __________________
— 24,964,487
— —
106,164,790 —
106,164,790 24,964,487
138,276 — — 138,276 — — 3,798,033 3,798,033 — ______________ — ______________ 6,757,395 ______________ 6,757,395 ______________ $ ______________ 25,102,763 ______________ 167,949,973 ______________ 414,737,567 ______________ 607,790,303 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ $
—
—
2,834,108
2,834,108
2,407,508 ______________ — ______________ — ______________ 2,407,508 ______________ $ ______________ 2,407,508 ______________ — ______________ 2,834,108 ______________ 5,241,616 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
The following tables present the Institute’s activities for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 for investments classified in Level 3:
2013 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Assets held under split-interest agreements
Beneficial Fixed Mortgages interest in Hedge Limited income from faculty remainder Level 3 roll forward ______________________________________________ funds partnerships ____________________________________________ securities and staff trust Total __________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________
Fair value at June 30, 2012 Acquisitions Dispositions Transfers in/out of Level 3 Net realized and unrealized gains Fair value at June 30, 2013
$ 298,017,349 27,000,000 (38,172,394) (1,112,006)
106,164,790 22,940,621 (29,906,189) —
3,798,033 25,000 (141,897) —
6,757,395 2,832,400 (802,662) —
2,834,108 — —
417,571,675 52,798,021 (69,023,142)
—
(1,112,006)
29,794,368 ____________________________________________ 17,881,317 ____________________________________________ 396,196 ____________________________________________ — ____________________________________________ (112,776) ____________________________________________ 47,959,105 ______________________________________________ $______________________________________________ 315,527,317 ____________________________________________ 117,080,539 ____________________________________________ 4,077,332 ____________________________________________ 8,787,133 ____________________________________________ 2,721,332 ____________________________________________ 448,193,653 ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________
2012 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Assets held under split-interest agreements
Beneficial Fixed Mortgages interest in Hedge Limited income from faculty remainder Level 3 roll forward funds partnerships securities and staff trust Total __________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________
Fair value at June 30, 2012
$ 313,904,120 42,000,000 (25,671,333) (40,149,527)
89,493,643 22,678,000 (17,826,312) —
4,138,260 36,921 (273,614) —
9,095,117 1,086,330 (3,424,052) —
3,206,005 — —
419,837,145 65,801,251 (47,195,311)
—
(40,149,527)
7,934,089 ____________________________________________ 11,819,459 ____________________________________________ (103,534) ____________________________________________ — ____________________________________________ (371,897) ____________________________________________ 19,278,117 ______________________________________________ $______________________________________________ 298,017,349 ____________________________________________ 106,164,790 ____________________________________________ 3,798,033 6,757,395 2,834,108 ____________________________________________ 417,571,675 ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________
The Institute’s accounting policy is to recognize transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy on the date of the event or change in circumstances that caused the transfer. There were no transfers between investments classified as Level 1 and Level 2 for the years ended June 30, 2013 or 2012. During fiscal years 2013 and 2012, approximately $16 million and $40 million, respectively, was transferred from Level 3 to Level 2 due to the expiration of lock-up restrictions. During fiscal year 2013, approximately $15 million was transferred from Level 2 to Level 3 primarily related to imposition of new redemption features.
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Fair value at June 30, 2011 Acquisitions Dispositions Transfers in/out of Level 3 Net realized and unrealized gains
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Private equity and venture capital investments are generally made through limited partnerships. Under the terms of such agreements, the Institute may be required to provide additional funding when capital or liquidity calls are made by fund managers. These partnerships have a limited existence, and they may provide for annual extensions for the purpose of disposing portfolio positions and returning capital to investors. However, depending on market conditions, the inability to execute the fund’s strategy, or other factors, a manager may extend the terms of a fund beyond its originally anticipated existence or may wind the fund down prematurely. The Institute cannot anticipate such changes because they generally arise from unforeseeable events, but should they occur they could reduce liquidity or originally anticipated investment returns. Accordingly, the timing and amount of future capital or liquidity calls in any particular future year are uncertain. As of June 30, 2013, the Institute is obligated under certain limited partnership agreements to advance additional funding in the amount of $64,858,661, which is anticipated to be called over the next 10 years. Investment liquidity as of June 30, 2013 is aggregated below based on redemption or sale period:
Investment fair values ________________ Investment redemption or sale period: Daily Monthly Quarterly Semi-annually Annually Subject to rolling lock ups or other restrictions Illiquid Total as of June 30, 2013
(c)
$
56,577,731 43,235,347 99,383,856 26,703,063 48,194,445 251,481,225 145,796,651 ________________
$ ________________ 671,372,318 ________________
Funds Held by Bond Trustee Funds held by bond trustee represent the balance of the proceeds from the 2006 and 2008 New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority (NJEFA or the Authority) bonds and the 2012 taxable bonds that have not yet been expended for construction purposes or debt service payments. These funds are being held in trust by The Bank of New York. Such funds are invested in U.S. government obligations with maturities of less than one year.
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Redemption Restrictions—Hedge Funds At June 30, 2013, the Institute had hedge fund investments of approximately $484,849,500, of which approximately $108,259,456 was restricted from redemption for lock-up periods. At June 30, 2012, the Institute had hedge fund investments of approximately $465,967,300, of which approximately $107,770,953 was restricted from redemption for lock-up periods. Some of the investments with redemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees. The terms and conditions upon which an investor may redeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30 to 180 days notice after the initial lock-up period. The expirations of redemption lock-up periods are summarized in the table below:
Amount ________________ Fiscal year: 2014 2015 2017 and thereafter Total
(e)
$
46,757,676 35,919,662 25,582,118 ________________
$ ________________ 108,259,456 ________________
Redemption Restrictions—Limited Partnerships At June 30, 2013 and 2012, the Institute had limited partnership investments of approximately $117,080,500 and $106,164,800, respectively, which were restricted from redemption for lock-up periods. Some of the investments with redemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees. The terms and conditions upon which an investor may redeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30 to 180 days notice after the initial lock-up period.
The expirations of redemption lock-up periods are summarized in the table below:
Amount ________________ Fiscal year: 2013 2014 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 and thereafter
$
1,567,923 8,318,475 7,436,543 24,880,458 12,888,656 31,771,710 30,216,774 ________________ $ ________________ 117,080,539 ________________
Total
(f)
Contingencies The Institute has an investment in the Ariel Fund Limited (the Fund), which on June 30, 2013 and 2012 had a fair value of approximately $8,659,500 and $12,630,100, respectively. During fiscal year 2009, the fund became subject to the oversight of a receiver appointed by the Attorney General of New York for the principal purposes of marshalling and preserving the assets of the Fund, for ultimate distribution of the proceeds to the respective investors of the Fund. During fiscal years 2013 and 2012, the Institute received distributions of $5,065,963 and $2,894,863, respectively, from the receiver. There is a potential for litigation to recover amounts from investors who have received previous distributions from the Fund. Management does not expect this to have a significant impact on the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial statements.
(4)
Investment Return and Endowment Spending Policy Investment return consists of interest, dividends, and realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments. Each year, the Institute includes a portion of its endowment return in its operating budget, with the amount of such planned support determined using its spending policy. The policy of the Institute is to distribute for current spending a percentage of the fair value of pooled investments which is determined by the Board of Trustees annually. The spending rate for operating and capital purposes was 6.7% and 5.0% for 2013 and 2012, respectively. The following tables summarize the investment return and its classification in the statements of activities for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012:
2013 __________________________________________ Temporarily Unrestricted restricted Total ____________ ____________ ____________ Dividends and interest, net of investment expenses Net realized and unrealized gains
$
(1,138,671) 29,279,170 ____________
(2,241,658) 66,212,269 ____________
35,830,112
28,140,499
63,970,611
18,589,144 ____________
16,090,456 ____________
34,679,600 ____________
$ ____________ 17,240,968
12,050,043 ____________
29,291,011 ____________
Total investment return Endowment spending policy for use in operations Endowment change after applying spending policy
2012 __________________________________________ Temporarily Unrestricted restricted Total ____________ ____________ ____________ Dividends and interest, net of investment expenses Net realized and unrealized gains Total investment return Endowment spending policy for use in operations Endowment change after applying spending policy
$
(853,407) 7,066,803 ____________ 6,213,396
(597,198) 4,922,856 ____________ 4,325,658
(1,450,605) 11,989,659 ____________ 10,539,054
12,952,782 ____________
10,710,118 ____________
23,662,900 ____________
$ ____________ (6,739,386) ____________
(6,384,460) ____________ ____________
(13,123,846) ____________ ____________
Total investment management and advisory fees were $2,355,295 and $1,767,082 for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
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(1,102,987) 36,933,099 ____________
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(5)
Endowment The Institute’s endowment consists of approximately 100 individual funds established for a variety of purposes including both donor-restricted endowment funds and funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments. Net assets associated with endowments, including funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments, are classified and reported based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions.
(a)
Interpretation of Relevant Law The Institute has interpreted the New Jersey-enacted version of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) as allowing the Institute to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of a donorrestricted endowment fund as the Institute determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes, and duration for which the endowment fund is established, subject to the intent of the donor as expressed in the gift instrument. Unless stated otherwise in the gift instrument, the assets in a donor-restricted endowment fund are donor-restricted assets until appropriated for expenditure by the Board of Trustees of the Institute. As a result of applicable accounting guidance, the Institute classifies as permanently restricted net assets (a) the original value of gifts donated to the permanent endowment, (b) the original value of subsequent gifts to the permanent endowment, and (c) accumulations to the permanent endowment made in accordance with the direction of the applicable donor gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund. The remaining portion of the donor-restricted endowment fund that is not classified as permanently restricted net assets is classified as temporarily restricted net assets until those amounts are appropriated for expenditure in a manner consistent with the standard of prudence prescribed by UPMIFA. From time to time, the fair value of assets associated with individual donor-restricted endowments may fall below the original corpus the fund included in permanently restricted net assets due to unfavorable market fluctuations subsequent to the investment of the gift. Deficiencies of this nature, which are reported in unrestricted net assets, totaled approximately $2,048,000 and $1,639,000, at June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Subsequent gains that restore the fair value of the assets of the donor-restricted endowment fund are classified as an increase in unrestricted net assets. Endowment net assets consisted of the following at June 30, 2013 and 2012:
2013 ____________________________________________________________ Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted restricted restricted Total ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
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Donor restricted Board designated
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$
(2,047,596) 146,712,480 182,410,786 327,075,670 355,474,109 — — 355,474,109 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ $ ______________ 353,426,513 146,712,480 182,410,786 682,549,779 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ 2012 ____________________________________________________________ Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted restricted restricted Total ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
Donor restricted Board designated
$
(1,638,917) 134,281,483 173,063,383 305,705,949 330,569,926 — — 330,569,926 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ $ ______________ 328,931,009 ______________ 134,281,483 ______________ 173,063,383 ______________ 636,275,875 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
Changes in endowment net assets for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were as follows:
Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted restricted restricted Total ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ Net assets, June 30, 2011 Dividends and interest income, net Realized and unrealized gains Contributions Appropriation for expenditure— operations Appropriation for expenditure— capital and other Net assets, June 30, 2012 Dividends and interest income, net Realized and unrealized gains Contributions Appropriation for expenditure— operations Amounts added back to the board-designated endowment Net assets, June 30, 2013
(b)
$
348,386,615
140,107,904
98,083,631
586,578,150
(853,407) 7,066,803 495,134
(629,550) 5,434,158 79,089
— — 74,979,752
(1,482,957) 12,500,961 75,553,975
(12,952,782)
(10,710,118)
—
(23,662,900)
(13,211,354) ______________ — ______________ — ______________ (13,211,354) ______________ 328,931,009
134,281,483
173,063,383
636,275,875
(1,102,987) 36,933,099 792,859
(895,195) 29,020,398 396,250
— — 9,347,403
(1,998,182) 65,953,497 10,536,512
(18,589,144)
(16,090,456)
—
(34,679,600)
6,461,677 ______________ — ______________ — ______________ 6,461,677 ______________ $ ______________ 353,426,513 146,712,480 182,410,786 682,549,779 ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
Return Objectives and Risk Parameters The Institute has adopted investment and spending policies for endowment assets that attempt to provide a predictable stream of funding to programs supported by its endowment while seeking to maintain the purchasing power of the endowment assets.
(c)
Strategies Employed for Achieving Objectives The Institute manages its investments in accordance with a total return concept and the goal of maximizing returns within acceptable levels of risk. The Institute relies on a total return strategy in which investment returns are achieved through both capital appreciation (realized and unrealized) and current yield (dividends and interest). The Institute’s spending policy is designed to provide a stable level of financial support and to preserve the real value of its endowment.
Physical Plant Physical plant and equipment are stated at cost at date of acquisition, less accumulated depreciation. A summary of plant assets at June 30, 2013 and 2012 follows:
Land Land improvements Buildings and improvements Equipment Construction in progress Rare book collection Joint ownership property
2013 ______________ $ 377,470 2,114,955 111,142,832 31,123,609 — 203,508 4,492,555 ______________ 149,454,929
Accumulated depreciation Net book value
(74,957,999) ______________ $ ______________ 74,496,930 ______________
2012 ______________ 377,470 1,979,081 105,052,933 28,332,117 205,928 203,508 3,937,361 ______________ 140,088,398 (70,543,951) ______________ 69,544,447 ______________ ______________
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(7)
Long-Term Debt A summary of long-term debt at June 30, 2013 and 2012 follows:
2001 Series A—NJEFA 2006 Series B—NJEFA 2006 Series C—NJEFA 2008 Series C—NJEFA 2012 Taxable Less unamortized bond discount Total long-term debt
2013 ______________ $ — 26,500,000 17,500,000 4,975,000 17,320,000 (244,966) ______________
2012 ______________ 1,940,000 27,500,000 18,000,000 5,475,000 — (173,205) ______________
$ ______________ 66,050,034 ______________
52,741,795 ______________ ______________
Interest expense on long-term debt for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 was $1,600,692 and $1,307,016, respectively.
(a)
2001 Series A In May 2001, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $11,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2001 Series A of the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds were used for the construction of Bloomberg Hall and additional capital projects. These bonds were partially refunded through the 2006 Series B Revenue bonds detailed below. During the year ending June 30, 2013, the remaining outstanding bonds from this issue were refunded through the 2012 Taxable bonds detailed below.
(b)
2006 Series B In July 2006, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $29,600,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series B of the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. The 2006 Series B Bonds were issued to finance the advance refunding of the outstanding 1997 Series G Bonds, the partial advance refunding of the 2001 Series A Bonds, and to pay a portion of certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series B Bonds.
(c)
2006 Series C In March 2007, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $20,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series C of the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds are being used to finance the costs of construction, renovating and equipping certain educational facilities of the Institute, to fund capitalized interest on the 2006 Series C Bonds during the renovation and construction, and to pay certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series C Bonds.
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2008 Series C In March 2008, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $11,255,000 Revenue Bonds, 2008 Series C of the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. The 2008 Series C Bonds were issued to finance the advance refunding of outstanding 1997 Series F Bonds, the advance refunding of outstanding 1997 Series G, and to pay a portion of certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2008 Series C Bonds.
(e)
2012 Taxable In December 2012, the Institute received proceeds of $17,320,000 Taxable Bonds, 2012 Series of the Institute for Advanced Study Issue, which were issued at a discount of approximately $92,000. The 2012 Taxable Bonds were used to finance the advance refunding of outstanding 2001 Series A Bonds, to fund renovations to the Members Housing facility and the costs of renovation and equipping certain educational facilities of the Institute, and to pay certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2012 Taxable Bonds.
(f)
Interest Rates The 2008 Series C Bonds bear interest at rates ranging from 3% to 5% per annum, payable semi-annually, are subject to redemption at various prices and require principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1, 2021. The obligation to pay the Authority on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and interest due on the bonds, is a general obligation of the Institute. The 2006 Series B and C Bonds bear interest at variable rates. The bonds were issued in the weekly mode with weekly rates determined by Lehman Brothers Inc, as Remarketing Agent and paid monthly. The maximum interest rate on the 2006 Bonds shall be twelve percent (12%) per annum. The 2006 bonds are subject to redemption at various prices and require principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1, 2036. The obligation to pay the
Authority on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and interest due on the bonds, is a general obligation of the Institute. On September 18, 2008, the Institute entered into a contract with JPMorgan Chase Bank to take over as Remarketing Agent, replacing Lehman Brothers Inc. The 2012 Taxable bonds bear interest at rates ranging from 0.388% to 3.892% per annum, payable semi-annually, are subject to redemption at various prices and require principal payments and sinking fund installments through December 1, 2042. The obligation to make the interest payments on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and interest due on the bonds, is a general obligation to the Institute.
(g)
Bond Swap Agreement On December 22, 2008, the Institute entered into a swap agreement with Wells Fargo Bank covering $28,800,000 of outstanding Series B Bonds that required the Institute to pay a fixed rate of 3.7702% to Wells Fargo Bank in exchange for Wells Fargo Bank agreeing to pay the Institute a variable rate equal to 67% of the USD-LIBOR-BBA rate with a term of three months, payable monthly, on an identical notional amount. The effective date of the swap was December 22, 2008 and the termination date of the swap agreement coincides with the maturity of the bonds, which is July 1, 2031. The Institute entered into this swap agreement with the intention of lowering its effective interest rate. At June 30, 2013 and 2012, the fair value of the interest rate swap was ($4,475,949) and ($6,498,621), respectively. The unrealized gain (loss) recognized during the year ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 in the amount of $2,022,672 and ($2,558,439), respectively is reported in the statements of activities in change in fair value of bond swap liability. The swap agreement utilizes level 2 inputs to measure fair value. The fair value of the interest rate swap was determined using pricing models developed based on the LIBOR swap rate and other market data. Under the swap agreement, the Institute may be required to post collateral to the counterparty if certain triggering events (rates and dollar thresholds) are met. As of June 30, 2013 and 2012, there was no requirement to post collateral imposed by the swap counterparty. The bonds are repayable as follows at June 30, 2013:
Year ending June 30: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 through 2036 Total
Amount ____________ $
2,415,000 2,440,000 2,575,000 2,605,000 2,845,000 53,415,000 ____________
$ ____________ 66,295,000 ____________
(h)
Line of Credit As of June 30, 2013 and 2012, the Institute had unsecured loan agreements representing a line of credit. As of June 30, 2012 the agreement provided for borrowings up to $20,000,000 and was available through April 2013. Interest payments were due on demand and interest accrued at the LIBOR rate plus 100 basis points, which was 2.07% as of June 30, 2012. As of June 30, 2013, the agreements provide for borrowings up to $50,000,000 and are available through April 2016. Interest payments are due on demand and interest accrues at the LIBOR rate plus 90 basis points, which was 1.58% as of June 30, 2013. There were no borrowings in fiscal year 2013 or 2012 against the lines of credit. No interest expense was incurred for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012.
(8)
Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits Separate voluntary defined contribution retirement plans are in effect for faculty members and eligible staff personnel, both of which provide for annuities, which are funded, to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and/or the College Retirement Equities Fund. Contributions are based on the individual participantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compensation in accordance with the formula set forth in the plan documents on a nondiscriminatory basis. Contributions for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 totaled approximately $2,285,200 and $2,070,700, respectively.
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The 2006 Series B, 2006 Series C, and 2008 Series C bonds are secured by a pledge of revenues pursuant to the respective Loan Agreements.
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In addition to providing pension benefits, the Institute provides certain health care and life insurance benefits for retired employees and faculty. Substantially, all of the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees may become eligible for these benefits if they meet minimum age and service requirements. The Institute accrues these benefits over a period in which active employees become eligible under existing benefit plans. The following table provides a reconciliation of the change in benefit obligation of the plan at June 30, 2013 and 2012. There are no plan assets at June 30, 2013 and 2012.
Postretirement benefit obligation: Retirees Fully eligible active plan participants Other active plan participants
Change in benefit obligation: Benefit obligation at beginning of year Service cost Interest cost Benefits paid Actuarial gain Benefit obligation at end of year Components of net periodic benefit cost: Service cost Interest cost Amortization of net gain Net periodic postretirement benefit (credit) cost
Benefit obligation weighted average assumptions at June 30, 2013 and 2012: Discount rate Periodic benefit cost weighted average assumptions for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012: Discount rate N OT E S TO F I N A N C I A L STAT E M E NT S
2012 ____________
4,769,377 1,713,694 6,692,021 ____________
6,036,019 1,359,880 7,665,343 ____________
$ ____________ 13,175,092 ____________
15,061,242 ____________ ____________
$
15,061,242 710,624 604,718 (376,897) (2,824,595) ____________
14,454,112 626,003 795,112 (424,617) (389,368) ____________
$ ____________ 13,175,092 ____________
15,061,242 ____________ ____________
$
710,624 604,718 (2,824,595) ____________
626,003 795,112 (389,368) ____________
$ ____________ (1,509,253) ____________
1,031,747 ____________ ____________
2013 ____________
2012 ____________
$
Postretirement benefit obligation
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2013 ____________
4.81%
4.08%
4.08%
5.61%
The healthcare trend rate is assumed to be 9% in fiscal 2014, trending down to an ultimate rate of 5% in 2021 and thereafter. The effects of a 1% increase or decrease in trend rates on total service and interest cost and the postretirement benefit obligation are as follows:
2013 2012 ____________________________________________________ __________________________ Increase Decrease Increase Decrease _________________________ ________________________ ________________________ __________________________ Effect on total service and interest cost Effect on the postretirement benefit obligation
$
370,416
(251,224)
318,370
(246,025)
3,042,465
(2,098,726)
3,157,958
(2,218,573)
Projected payments for each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter through 2023 are as follows: Amount ____________
Year ending June 30: 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 through 2023
$
394,000 397,000 400,000 401,000 398,000 1,805,000
The Institute funds claims as they are incurred. The Institute does not expect to contribute any amounts in fiscal 2013, except as needed to provide for benefit payments.
(9)
Temporarily and Permanently Restricted Assets Restricted net assets are available for the following purposes at June 30, 2013 and 2012:
Temporarily restricted net assets are restricted to: School of Mathematics School of Natural Sciences School of Historical Studies School of Social Science Libraries and other academic Administration and general
Permanently restricted net assets are restricted to: Investments to be held in perpetuity, the income from which is expendable to support academic services
2013 ______________
2012 ______________
30,982,319 12,388,448 35,601,130 55,029,995 4,880,138 8,375,356 ______________
29,549,172 9,632,215 33,527,995 52,150,178 4,227,856 5,723,677 ______________
$ ______________ 147,257,386 ______________
134,811,093 ______________ ______________
$
$
182,410,786
173,063,383
(10) Disclosures About Fair Value of Financial Instruments
(11) Subsequent Events The Institute evaluated events subsequent to June 30, 2013 through November 25, 2013, the date on which the financial statements were issued, and determined there were no subsequent events required to be disclosed.
N OT E S TO F I N A N C I A L STAT E M E NT S
The carrying amount of the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial instruments not carried at fair value approximates fair value due to the short maturity, except for long-term indebtedness. The estimated fair value of the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-term indebtedness, based on the discounted future cash payments to be made using observable inputs that fall within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, was approximately $68,299,937 and $53,666,000 at June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
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